When a country is at war we want Congressmen, regardless of party, to back up the government of the United States. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
[The United States is] founded on the principles of Christianity — 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
New Orleans makes it possible to go to Europe without ever leaving the United States. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will… We must be the great arsenal of democracy. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I hope that you have re-read the Constitution of the United States in these past few weeks. Like the Bible, it ought… — 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
There is one front and one battle where everyone in the United States-every man, woman, and child-is in action, and will be… — 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
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
Yesterday, December 7, 1941 a date which will live in infamy the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
...Since 1775 the United States Marines have upheld a fine tradition of service to their country. They are doing so today. I… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
My fellow Americans: Last night when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
As Commander-in-Chief, I take pleasure in commending the reading of the Bible to all who serve in the Armed Forces of the… — 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
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
This law represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means completed--a structure intended to lessen… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“From the end of the World War twenty-one years ago, this country, like many others, went through a phase of having large… — 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 coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of line—the survivors of a regiment of 1,000 that… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share
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