Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man… — 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
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any… — 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
The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
More striking still, it appeared that, if the process of concentration goes on at the same rate, at the end of another… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the dedication of a library is an act of faith. To bring together the resources of the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For every advance that the Japanese have made since they started their frenzied career of conquest, they have had to pay a… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Every man has a right to life, and this means that he has also a right to make a comfortable living. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self reliant enough to be free. — 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
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
We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It drives on with a courage which is stronger than the storm. It drives on with a mercy which does not quail… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will.... We must be the great arsenal of democracy. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is the habit of the unthinking to turn to the illusions of economic magic. These unhappy times call for the building… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to… — 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
