My fellow Americans: Last night when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties. New kingdoms were built upon concentration of control over material things.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In the final analysis, the progress of our civilization will be retarded if any large body of citizens falls behind. Without the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No greater tragedy exists in modern civilization than the aged, worn-out worker who after a life of ceaseless effort and useful productivity… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We do not see faith, hope, and charity as unattainable ideals, but we use them as stout supports of a nation fighting… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We must open our eyes and see that modern civilization has become so complex and the lives of civilized men so interwoven… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Do not confuse objectives with methods. When the nation becomes substantially united in favor of planning the broad objectives of civilization, then… — 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 Image
'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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The core of our defense is the faith we have in the institutions we defend. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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 Image
Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
