[M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think that both here and in England there are two schools of thought--those who would be altruistic in regard to the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If the Nation is living within its income, its credit is good. If, in some crises, it lives beyond its income for… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Let me make it clear that I do not assert that a President and the Congress must on all points agree with… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I read in a newspaper that I was to be received with all the honors customarily rendered to a foreign ruler. I… — 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
Once you've spent two years trying to wiggle one toe, everything is in proportion. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs,… — 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
If you have spent two years in bed trying to wiggle your big toe, everything else seems easy. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. — 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