America Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

What America needs now is a drink,

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The frontier of America is on the Rhine.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

There is no group in America that can withstand the force of an aroused public opinion.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Slowly, and in spite of anything we Americans do or do not do, it looks a little as if you and some…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Yesterday, December 7, 1941 a date which will live in infamy the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I venture the challenging statement that if American democracy ceases to move forward as a living force, seeking day and night by…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I pledge you, pledge myself, to a New Deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

If civilization is to survive, the principles of the Prince of Peace must be restored. Shattered trust between nations must be revived.…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

[M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

To a great extent the achievements of invention, of mechanical and of artistic creation, must of necessity, and rightly, be individual rather…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Of course we will continue to work for cheaper electricity in the homes and on the farms of America; for better and…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

America has been the New World in all tongues, to all peoples, not because this continent was a new-found land, but because…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The people of America are in agreement in defending their liberties at any cost, and the first line of that defense lies…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I see an America whose rivers and valleys and lakes hills and streams and plains the mountains over our land and nature's…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt