A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth. — 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 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 have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Out of the collapse… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To a great extent the achievements of invention, of mechanical and of artistic creation, must of necessity, and rightly, be individual rather… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition. — 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
