Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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We know that we still have far to go; that we must more greatly build the security and the opportunity and the knowledge of every citizen, in the measure justified by the resources and the capacity of the land.
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In the days and in the years that are to come we shall work for a just and honorable peace, a durable peace, as today we work and fight for total victory in war. We can and we will achieve such a peace.
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Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
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We have faith that future generations will know that here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war.
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I don't want to see a single war millionaire created in the United States as a result of this world disaster.
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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
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Democracy is not dying. We know it because we have seen it revive - and grow. We know it cannot die - because it is built on the unhampered initiative of individual men and women joined together in a common enterprise - an enterprise undertaken and carried through by the free expression of a free majority.
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On each national day of inauguration since 1789, the people have renewed their sense of dedication to the United States.
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We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.
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We have undertaken a new order of things; yet we progress to it under the framework and in the spirit and intent of the American Constitution. We have proceeded throughout the Nation a measurable distance on the road toward this new order.
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Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.
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If the country is to flourish, capital must be invested in enterprise. But those who seek to draw upon other people's money must be wholly candid regarding the facts on which the investor's judgment is asked.
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It is fun to be in the same decade with you.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
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Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
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Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
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And so today, in this year of war, 1945, we have learned lessons - at a fearful cost - and we shall profit by them.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.
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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
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We must scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil liberties of all our citizens, whatever their background. We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.