It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We can see now that we Americans were caught unprepared, because we were ordinary human beings, following the best advice we had… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual disintegration… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our policy is to give all possible material aid to the nations that still resist aggression across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.… — 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
As Commander-in-Chief, I take pleasure in commending the reading of the Bible to all who serve in the Armed Forces of the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
And yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The lessons of religious toleration - a toleration which recognizes complete liberty of human thought, liberty of conscience - is one which,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A wise Government seeks to provide the opportunity through which the best of individual achievement can be obtained, while at the same… — 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
We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
This law represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means completed--a structure intended to lessen… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of… — 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
