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
Liberty requires opportunity to make a living--a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives a man… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the government, but they have maintained that… — 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
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
