For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government . . . costs too much.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When a country is at war we want Congressmen, regardless of party, to back up the government of the United States. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The fundamental idea...is that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process of making for the enrichment of the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation . — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally,… — 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
No business which depends for existence on paying *less than living wages* to its workers has any right to continue in this… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Economic diseases are highly communicable. It follows therefore that the economic health of every country is a proper matter of concern to… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country.… — 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… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
...Since 1775 the United States Marines have upheld a fine tradition of service to their country. They are doing so today. I… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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
The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The trade agreement which I had the privilege of signing with your Prime Minister last autumn is tangible evidence of the desire… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Those of you who have been there Haiti know it is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. It has… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The peoples of many countries are being taxed to the point of poverty and starvation... to enable governments to engage in a… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
While things on the surface seem more quiet than at any time since last summer, I do not like the maintenance of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I read in a newspaper that I was to be received with all the honors customarily rendered to a foreign ruler. I… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The most difficult place in the world to get a clear and open perspective of the country as a whole is Washington. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries is in danger. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The peoples of many countries are being taxed to the point of poverty and starvation in order to enable Governments to engage… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is nothing so American as our national parks. The scenery and the wildlife are native. The fundamental idea behind the parks… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Is the United States going to decide, are the people of this country going to decide that their Federal Government shall in… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The handling of our forests as a continuous, renewable resource means permanent employment and stability to our country life. The forests are… — 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
