The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in Government than in politics.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The traditional Jeffersonian principle of religious freedom was so broadly democratic that it included the right to have no religion at all… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands they must be made brighter in our own. If… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are strong and self-reliant, 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
