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As to the thirty-six Senators who placed themselves on record against the principle of a World Court, I am inclined to think that if they ever...
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who, however, has never lea...
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
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. War
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of line
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names, but are as alike in their principals and aims as two peas in the same pod.
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. Politics
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
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 for their own selfish purpose or advancement, hamper or oppress that minority, or debar them in any way from equal privileges and equal rights -- that moment will mark the failure of our constitutional system.
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little. History
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrations and revolutionists.
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live on in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
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.
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
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.
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.
By Franklin D. Roosevelt