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True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression—everywhere in the world...
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
We shall make mistakes, but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principles. I remember th...
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said, that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approac...
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
Those words freedom and opportunity do not mean a license to climb upwards by pushing other people down. Any paternalistic system that tries t...
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, or my wife, or on my sons. No, not content with that, they now include my l...
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
There is no question but that you and I think alike in the great objectives of the peace when it comes. The real problem lies in the methods t...
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Amer...
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities—a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
Responsibility for political conditions thousands of miles away can no longer be avoided, I think, by this great Nation. Certainly I don't wan...
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it. Twenty- five years ago A...
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerne...
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. Yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method o...
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
Liberty is the air that we Americans breathe. Our Government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free. That civilized ...
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
Liberty requires opportunity to make a living—a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives a man not only eno...
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
In looking back over the college careers of those who for various reasons have been prominent in undergraduate life ... one cannot help notici...
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
In past years, the amount of money that has had to be been spent on armaments, great and small, instead of on productive industry and agricult...
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
If civilization is to survive, the principles of the Prince of Peace must be restored. Shattered trust between nations must be revived. Most i...
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place.... The flag a...
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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
I have come to the conclusion that the closer people are to what may be called the front lines of government ... the easier it is to see the i...
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
I ... believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free. Such things did not need as ...
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is e...
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
Chamberlain's visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to me like an inevitabl...
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women. The ultimate vict...
By Franklin D. Roosevelt