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Them Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt
- The liberal party is a party which believes that, as new conditions an problems arise beyond the power of men and women to meet as…
- There has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that Americans have considerable industrial power…
- Our security is not a matter of weapons alone. The arm that wields them must be strong, the eye that guides them clear, the will…
- Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to…
- If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free
- Of course we believe these things. We believe in social security. We believe in work for the unemployed. We believe in saving homes. Cross our…
- We do not see faith, hope, and charity as unattainable ideals, but we use them as stout supports of a nation fighting the fight for…
- Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom…
- It is highly unlikely that an airplane, or fleet of them, could ever sink a fleet of Navy vessels under battle conditions.
- It seems to me that the dedication of a library is an act of faith. To bring together the resources of the past and to…
- The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of the minority, and…
- History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by democratic methods people…
- I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them.
- Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
- Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
- Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
- Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we…
- Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
- If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands…
- Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them.
- These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, on my wife, or on my sons. No, not content with that, they now…
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