Freedom of the press is essential to the preservation of a democracy; but there is a difference between freedom and license. Editorialists… — 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
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
Finally, in our progress toward a resumption of work we require two safeguards against a return of the evils of the old… — 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
I pledge you, pledge myself, to a New Deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Friendship among nations, as among individuals, calls for constructive efforts to muster the forces of humanity in order that an atmosphere of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
On this tenth day of June, nineteen hundred and forty, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back… — 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
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
