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Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Destiny, Men, Fellow Man
Franklin D. Roosevelt (2009). “Looking Forward”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

Yesterday, December 7, 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.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
War, Yesterday, America
Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address to the Congress Asking That a State of War Be Declared Between the United States and Japan, www.loc.gov. December 8, 1941.

New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ideas, Judgement, Invention

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Country, Mean, Men

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 approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear.

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

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.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Change, Philosophy, Medicine

...We now realize as we have never before our interdependence on each other; that we cannot merely take, but we must be willing to sacrifice for the good of a common discipline, because without such discipline, no progress is made, no leadership becomes effective.

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

Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Peace, War, Succeed

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Men, Air, Feet
Radio address, 26 Oct. 1939

Great power involves great responsibility

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Responsibility, Great Power, Power And Responsibility

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Usa, Goal, United States
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.86, Best Books on

Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Determination, People, History
Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation, delivered 8 December 1941, Washington, D.C.

All of us in all the Americas will be living at the point of a gun.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Gun

Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
War, Boys, Presidential
Speech, Boston, Mass., 30 Oct. 1940 See Lyndon Johnson 9

Do not confuse objectives with methods. When the nation becomes substantially united in favor of planning the broad objectives of civilization, then true leadership must unite thought behind definite methods.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wisdom, Civilization, Favors
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6”, p.646, Best Books on

In time of this grave national danger, when all excess income should go to win the war, no American citizen ought to have a net income, after he has paid his taxes, of more than $25,000 a year.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
War, Winning, Years
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1943, Volume 12”, p.160, Best Books on

In the field of world policy; I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Presidential, Fields, World
First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1933. According to Hans Sperber and Travis Trittschuh, American Political Terms: An Historical Dictionary, Herbert Hoover prominently used the term "good neighbor" during his tour of South America after the 1928 presidential election.

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 of settling the differences between Governments. The once powerful malignant Nazi state is crumbling; the Japanese warlords are receiving in their homelands the retribution for which they asked when they attacked Pearl Harbor. But the mere conquest of our enemies is not enough; we must go on to do all in our power to conquer the doubts and the fears, the ignorance and the greed, which made this horror possible.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Peace, Powerful, War

You sometimes find something good in the lunatic fringe. In fact, we have got as part of our social and economic government today a whole lot of things which in my boyhood were considered lunatic fringe, and yet they are now part of everyday life.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Government, Everyday, Radicalism
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945, Volume 13”, p.147, Best Books on

I am perhaps being a bit facetious but if some of my good Baptist brethren in Georgia had done a little preaching from the pulpitagainst the K.K.K. in the '20s, I would have a little more genuine American respect for their Christianity!

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Prejudice, Done, Baptists

I suggest a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Reading, Scripture, Thanksgiving Day

More than just an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Peace, War, Want
Address written for Jefferson Day Dinner, 13 Apr. 1945. This address was never delivered because of Roosevelt's death on 12 April.

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Motivational, Art, Vision

Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.

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

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Humor, Two, Quality
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1933, Volume 2”, p.491, Best Books on