The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me that the best symbol of common sense was a bridge. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The Social Security Act offers to all our citizens a workable and working method of meeting urgent present needs and of forestalling… — 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
...We now realize as we have never before our interdependence on each other; that we cannot merely take, but we must be… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and… — 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
