Has beens Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

To win this war, we have been forced into a strategic compromise which will most certainly offend the Russians.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed... and may only be opened in the presence of an…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government . . . costs too much.…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries is in danger.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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

We have our difficulties, true; but we are a wiser and a tougher nation than we were in 1932. Never have there…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

There has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that Americans have…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Where freedom of religion has been attacked, the attack has come from sources opposed to democracy. Where democracy has been overthrown, the…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

A point has been reached where the peoples of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill-will, of marked trends toward aggression,…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Let me make it clear that I do not assert that a President and the Congress must on all points agree with…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a nation, without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt