Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes - Page 19

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• Inside the polling booth every American man and woman stands as the equal of every other American man and woman. There they have no superiors. There they have no masters save their own minds and consciences.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Equality, Men, Mind

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• I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Mother, Children, Hate

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.289, Best Books on

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• The Nazi danger to our Western world has long ceased to be a mere possibility. The danger is here now--not only from a military enemy but from an enemy of all law, all liberty, all morality, all religion.

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  Military, Law, Long

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2008). “Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944”, Red & Black Pub

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• In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.

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  Responsibility, Power, Framework

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• Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it.

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  Sacrifice, Long, Humanity

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• For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government . . . costs too much. I shall not stop that preaching.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Government, Years

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• It is highly unlikely that an airplane, or fleet of them, could ever sink a fleet of Navy vessels under battle conditions.

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  Airplane, Navy, Battle

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• Any Government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that a continuation of that habit means the poorhouse.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Mean, Government, Years

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6”, p.663, Best Books on

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• This nation asks for action, and action now.

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  Action, Asks, Nations

  First Inaugural Address, Delivered 4 March 1933

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• The only thing we have to fear...is audiovisual glitches at our annual event.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Events, Glitches, Annuals

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• We must be the great arsenal of Democracy.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  History, Presidential, Democracy

  Radio broadcast, 29 Dec. 1940. According to Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas, The Wise Men (1986), this slogan was picked up for Roosevelt's address after it was used in conversation by John McCloy, who had gotten it from Jean Monnet.

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• I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.

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  Justice, Diversity, Political

  Second Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1937

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• On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia.

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  Crush, War, Army

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• We stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place.

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  Freedom, Opportunity, Average

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• Slowly, and in spite of anything we Americans do or do not do, it looks a little as if you and some other good people are going to have to answer the old question of whether you want to keep your country unshackled by taking even more definite steps to do so

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  Country, War, People

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• The chief problem is, of course, whether the marching of the general spirit of things is heading consciously or sub- consciously toward an idea of extension of boundaries.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Ideas, Spirit

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• While things on the surface seem more quiet than at any time since last summer, I do not like the maintenance of what amounts to almost full mobilization in aggressor countries. Surely they cannot afford it and if they had any definite policy of trying to work out economic salvation (except by arms) they would be showing some signs of cutting military expenditures.

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  Summer, Country, Military

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• How many people in the United States do you think will be willing to go to war to free Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania?

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  War, Thinking, People

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• [M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature in such a way as to harm their neighbors and especially to harm the future generations of Americans. If many years ago we had had the necessary knowledge, and especially the necessary willingness on the part of the Federal Government, we would have saved a sum, a sum of money which has cost the taxpayers of America two billion dollars.

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  Government, Years, Two

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• No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

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  Government, Groups, Body

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.84, Best Books on

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• I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Block, Doubt, Permit

  Letter to Samuel B. Hill (chairman of House Ways and Means Committee), 6 July 1935

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• As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.

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  War, Pride, World

  The Four Freedoms, delivered 6 January, 1941 (photo of FDR in 1936)

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• The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation .

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  Country, Mistake, Needs

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2009). “Looking Forward”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• All work undertaken should be useful - not just for a day, or a year, but useful in the sense that it affords permanent improvement in living conditions or that it creates future new wealth for the Nation.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Years, Improvement, Wealth

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• The American people want their government to act, and not merely to talk, whenever and wherever there is a threat to world peace.

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  Government, People, World

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