We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I believe that we are going to get along very well with him [Josef Stalin] and the Russian people - very well… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The American People in their Righteous Might will win through to Absolute Victory. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You are, I am sure, aware that genuine popular support in the United States is required to carry out any Government policy,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The American people want their government to act, and not merely to talk, whenever and wherever there is a threat to world… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The people of America are in agreement in defending their liberties at any cost, and the first line of that defense lies… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We all know that books burn, yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Frankly, I do not like the idea of conversations to define the term "unconditional surrender."The German people can have dinned into their… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Democracy can thrive only when it enlists the devotion of those whom Lincoln called the common people. Democracy can hold that devotion… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The trade agreement which I had the privilege of signing with your Prime Minister last autumn is tangible evidence of the desire… — 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
What worries me, especially, is that public opinion over here is patting itself on the back every morning and thanking God for… — 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
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
How many people in the United States do you think will be willing to go to war to free Estonia, Latvia, and… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I see an America whose rivers and valleys and lakes hills and streams and plains the mountains over our land and nature's… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The fundamental idea...is that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process of making for the enrichment of the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Almighty God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There can be little doubt that in many ways the story of bridge building is the story of civilisation. By it we… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American… — 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… — 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