War Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

War is a contagion.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I have seen war ... I hate war.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“War is young men dying and old men talking”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

December 7, 1941. A date which will live in infamy.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

More than just an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I've fired my last shot. I think I should have another round in my belt.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is highly unlikely that an airplane, or fleet of them, could ever sink a fleet of Navy vessels under battle conditions.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of…

— 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

Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce…

— 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

The motto of war is: "Let the strong survive; let the weak die." The motto of peace is: "Let the strong help…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We are not isolationists except in so far as we seek to isolate ourselves completely from war. Yet we must remember that…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

These are bad days for all of us who remember always that when real world forces come into conflict, the final result…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation,…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

They have given their sons to the military services. They have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels. They have made…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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

The peoples of many countries are being taxed to the point of poverty and starvation in order to enable Governments to engage…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

If civilization is to survive, the principles of the Prince of Peace must be restored. Shattered trust between nations must be revived.…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

A point has been reached where the peoples of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill-will, of marked trends toward aggression,…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. Yes, an end to this brutal,…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

To win this war, we have been forced into a strategic compromise which will most certainly offend the Russians.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I believe that we are going to get along very well with him [Josef Stalin] and the Russian people - very well…

— 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

[D]rilling and arming, when carried on on a national scale, excite whole populations to frenzies which end in war.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. I have said this before, but…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The chief problem is, of course, whether the marching of the general spirit of things is heading consciously or sub- consciously toward…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt