“For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It will never be possible for any length of time for any group of the American people, either by reason of wealth… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The first theory is that if we make the rich richer, somehow they will let a part of their prosperity trickle down… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I see an America whose rivers and valleys and lakes hills and streams and plains the mountains over our land and nature's… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of… — 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
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent… — 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
It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
True wealth is not a static thing. It is a living thing made out of the disposition of men to create 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
All work undertaken should be useful - not just for a day, or a year, but useful in the sense that it… — 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