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
Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You'll have to learn that public life takes a lot of sweat; but it doesn't need to worry you. You won't always… — 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
But the challenge is always the same whether each generation facing its own circumstances can summon the practical devotion to attain and… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob… [The organized moneyed people] are… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
They realize that in thirty-four months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a peoples Government… — 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
I am particularly interested in the indications that the people seem to understand and approve the necessity of pursuing the course that… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It will never be possible for any length of time for any group of the American people, either by reason of wealth… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is nothing so American as our national parks. The scenery and the wildlife are native. The fundamental idea behind the parks… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Is the United States going to decide, are the people of this country going to decide that their Federal Government shall in… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people's property, other people's money, other people's… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger. With… — 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
Slowly, and in spite of anything we Americans do or do not do, it looks a little as if you and some… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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
People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about. — 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