[The United States is] founded on the principles of Christianity — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Continued dependence on relief inducers a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Religion, by teaching man his relationship to God, gives the individual a sense of his own dignity and teaches him to respect… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I call for effort, courage, sacrifice, devotion. Granting the love of freedom, all of these are possible. And the love of freedom… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I suggest a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The public schools shall be free from sectarian influences and, above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The driving force of a nation lies in its spiritual purpose, made effective by free, tolerant but unremitting national will. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Democracy can thrive only when it enlists the devotion of those whom Lincoln called the common people. Democracy can hold that devotion… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
'Peace on earth, good will toward men' - democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
As Commander-in-Chief, I take pleasure in commending the reading of the Bible to all who serve in the Armed Forces of the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The traditional Jeffersonian principle of religious freedom was so broadly democratic that it included the right to have no religion at all… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No greater blessing could come to our land today than a revival of the spirit of religion. I doubt if there is… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
But the challenge is always the same whether each generation facing its own circumstances can summon the practical devotion to attain and… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Where freedom of religion has been attacked, the attack has come from sources opposed to democracy. Where democracy has been overthrown, the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
One reason--perhaps the chief--of the virility of the Roosevelts is [their] very democratic spirit. They have never felt that because they were… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The lessons of religious toleration - a toleration which recognizes complete liberty of human thought, liberty of conscience - is one which,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“No realistic American can expect from a dictator's peace international generosity, or return of true independence, or world disarmament, or freedom of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual disintegration… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There comes a time in the affairs of men when they must prepare to defend not their homes alone but the tenets… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share
'Peace on earth, good will toward men' - democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy cannot live… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share
I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share
All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share
They have given their sons to the military services. They have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels. They have made the planes… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share
On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia... — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share
The core of our defense is the faith we have in the institutions we defend. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share
Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share
Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share
The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in Government than in politics. The growing… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share
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