Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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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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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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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 nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
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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'm just afraid that I may not have the strength to do this job. After you leave me tonight, Jimmy, I am going to pray. I am going to pray that God will help me, that he will give me the strength and the guidance to do this job and to do it right. I hope that you will pray for me, too, Jimmy.
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No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of its minorities.
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It seems to be unfortunately true that the epidemic of world lawlessness is spreading. When an epidemic of physical disease starts to spread, the community approves and joins in a quarantine of the patients in order to protect the health of the community against the spread of the disease.
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We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
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We must be the great arsenal of Democracy.
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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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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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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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Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
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Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.
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Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
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On this tenth day of June, 1940, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.
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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
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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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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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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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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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As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are soft-hearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.