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The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men.

The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

Are we going to take the hands of the federal government completely off any effort to adjust the growing of national crops, and go right straight back to the old principle that every farmer is a lord of his own farm and can do anything he wants, raise anything, any old time, in any quantity, and sell any time he wants?

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Government, Hands, Agriculture
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4”, p.213, Best Books on

To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Inspirational, Life, Anchors
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.248, Best Books on

General de Gaulle was a thoroughly bad boy. The day he arrived, he thought he was Joan of Arc and the following day he insisted that he was Georges Clemenceau.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Boys, Arrogance, Bad Boy

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Determination, War, Feelings
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4”, p.450, Best Books on

Chamberlain's visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to me likean inevitable conflict within the next five years.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Peace, War, Years

A program whose basic thesis is, not that the system of free enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that it has not yet been tried!

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wisdom, This Generation, Generations

All free peoples are deeply impressed by the courage and steadfastness of the Greek nation.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Greek, Nations, Impressed
Franklin D. Roosevelt's letter to King George of Greece, regarding the Greek victory in the Greco-Italian War, www.mtholyoke.edu. December 5, 1940.

I have a terrific headache.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dying, Headache, Last Words
"Biography/ Trivia". www.imdb.com.

All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Danger, Plans, Private Life
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Past, Long, Long Time

If civilization is to survive, the principles of the Prince of Peace must be restored. Shattered trust between nations must be revived. Most important of all, the will for peace on the part of peace-loving nations must express itself to the end that nations that may be tempted to violate their agreements and the rights of others will desist from such a cause. There must be positive endeavors to preserve peace. America hates war. America hopes for peace. Therefore, America actively engages in the search for peace.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Peace, Hate, War
"Quarantine the Aggressor". Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech on the world situation in Chicago, Illinois, October 5, 1937.

We all know that books burn, yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can put thought in a concentration camp forever. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man's eternal fight against tyranny of every kind.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Book, Fighting, Men
"Message to the Booksellers of America" (1942)

And yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered, because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for. Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Sight, Effort, Being Thankful
First Inaugural Address, Delivered 4 March 1933

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Military, War, Inspirational Life

It drives on with a courage which is stronger than the storm. It drives on with a mercy which does not quail in the presence of death. It drives on as proof, a symbol, a testimony that man is created in the image of God and that valour and virtue have not perished in the British race.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Men, Race, Storm

I read in a newspaper that I was to be received with all the honors customarily rendered to a foreign ruler. I am grateful for the honors; but something within me rebelled at that word 'foreign'. I say this because when I have been in Canada, I have never heard a Canadian refer to an American as a 'foreigner'. He is just an 'American'. And, in the same way, in the United States, Canadians are not 'foreigners', they are 'Canadians'. That simple little distinction illustrates to me better than anything else the relationship between our two countries.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Country, Grateful, Simple

Employers and employees alike have learned that in union there is strength.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Unions, Employers, Employee
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6”, p.212, Best Books on

I've never been unemployed. I've never been very fully employed either.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Unemployed, Employed

When a country is at war we want Congressmen, regardless of party, to back up the government of the United States.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Country, War, Party
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1942, Volume 11”, p.80, Best Books on

The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Country, Order, History
The Four Freedoms, delivered 6 January, 1941 (photo of FDR in 1936)

Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Life, Wise, Men
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.390, Best Books on

The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wise, Lying, Government

One reason--perhaps the chief--of the virility of the Roosevelts is [their] very democratic spirit. They have never felt that because they were born in a good position they could put their hands in their pockets and succeed. They have felt, rather, that being born in a good position, there is no excuse for them if they did not do their duty by the community.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hands, Community, Society

A nation, like a person, has a mind - a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself, that understands the hopes and needs of its neighbors - all the other nations that live within the narrowing circle of the world

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