Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - Franklin… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Always will we remember the character of the onslaught against us. No matter how long it may take us to overcome this… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Dec. 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - No matter how long it may take us to overcome… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
My own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Many causes produce war. There are ancient hatreds, turbulent frontiers, the "legacy of old forgotten, far-off things, and battles long ago." There… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We are not isolationists except in so far as we seek to isolate ourselves completely from war. Yet we must remember that… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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
The Nazi danger to our Western world has long ceased to be a mere possibility. The danger is here now--not only from… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Out of the collapse… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
On both sides of the line, we are so accustomed to an undefended boundary three thousand miles long that we are inclined… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains… — 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