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 Copy Share Image
[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
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
If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Chamberlain's visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We have our difficulties, true; but we are a wiser and a tougher nation than we were in 1932. Never have there… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No greater tragedy exists in modern civilization than the aged, worn-out worker who after a life of ceaseless effort and useful productivity… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In time of this grave national danger, when all excess income should go to win the war, no American citizen ought to… — 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
Your profits are going to be cut down to a reasonably low level by taxation. Your income will be subject to higher… — 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
For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government . . . costs too much.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of… — 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
Any Government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that… — 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