History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In vain these economic royalists seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It took six weeks of debate in the Senate to get the Arms Embargo Law repealed--and we face other delays during the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image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
