United states Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

When a country is at war we want Congressmen, regardless of party, to back up the government of the United States.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

[The United States is] founded on the principles of Christianity

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will… We must be the great arsenal of democracy.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

New Orleans makes it possible to go to Europe without ever leaving the United States.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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

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

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

...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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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