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All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed... and may only be opened in the presence of an agent of the I.R.S.

All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed... and may only be opened in the presence of an agent of the I.R.S.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Depression, Safe, Agents

You are, I am sure, aware that genuine popular support in the United States is required to carry out any Government policy, foreign or domestic. The American people make up their own minds and no governmental action can change it.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Government, People, Support

Our national debt after all is an internal debt owed not only by the Nation but to the Nation. If our children have to pay interest on it they will pay that interest to themselves. A reasonable internal debt will not impoverish our children or put the Nation into bankruptcy.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Children, Debt, Pay
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1939, Volume 8”, p.351, Best Books on

A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people's property, other people's money, other people's labor - other people's lives. For too many of us life was no longer free; liberty no longer real; men could no longer follow the pursuit of happiness.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Real, Pursuit Of Happiness, Men
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

True wealth is not a static thing. It is a living thing made out of the disposition of men to create and distribute the good things of life with rising standards of living.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Money, Men, Rising

Industrial combination is not wrong in itself. The danger lies in taking government into partnership.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Lying, Government, Partnership

There is much to be said against the climate on the coast of British Columbia and Alaska; yet, I believe that the scenery of one good day will compensate the tourists who will go there in increasing numbers.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Beauty, Believe, Good Day

We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Presidential, Needs, Want

That is the spiral galaxy in Andromeda. It is as large as our Milky Way. It is one of a hundred million galaxies. It consists of one hundred billion suns. Now I think we are small enough.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Science, Thinking, Way

Old women are the secret to the fluffiest cakes.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Cake, Secret, Old Woman

Frankly, I do not like the idea of conversations to define the term "unconditional surrender."The German people can have dinned into their ears what I said in my Christmas Eve speech--in effect, that we have no thought of destroying the German people and that we want them to live through the generations like other European peoples on condition, of course, that they get rid of their present philosophy of conquest.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Philosophy, Ideas, People

I've fired my last shot. I think I should have another round in my belt.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
War, Thinking, Should Have

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Country, Believe, Government

Let us move forward with strong and active faith.

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

Lord, reform Thy world, beginning with me.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Reform, World, Lord
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1941, Volume 10”, p.561, Best Books on

Dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Government, Elephants, States

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
President, Privilege, Congress

The money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Civilization, May, Temples
First Inaugural Address, Delivered 4 March 1933

I have seen war ... I hate war.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hate, War, I Hate
Speech, Chautauqua, N.Y., 14 Aug. 1936

There is no group in America that can withstand the force of an aroused public opinion.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
America, Groups, Public Opinion
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1933, Volume 2”, p.254, Best Books on

There can be little doubt that in many ways the story of bridge building is the story of civilisation. By it we can readily measure an important part of a people's progress.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Bridges, People, Doubt
"Kurilpa Bridge". Book by Haig Beck, p. 72, 2012.

A point has been reached where the peoples of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill-will, of marked trends toward aggression, of increasing armaments, of shortening tempers--a situation which has in it many of the elements that lead to the tragedy of general war.... Peace is threatened by those who seek selfish power.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Selfish, War, Ill Will
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.9, Best Books on

Since becoming President, I have come to know that the finest of Americans we have abroad today are the missionaries of the cross. I am humiliated that I am not finding this out until this late day the worth of foreign missions and the nobility of the missionaries.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
President, Today, Becoming

A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for either art or artists to survive. Crush individuality in society and you crush art as well. Nourish the conditions of a free life and you nourish the arts, too.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Crush, Art, Individuality
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1939, Volume 8”, p.336, Best Books on

For every advance that the Japanese have made since they started their frenzied career of conquest, they have had to pay a very heavy toll in warships, in transports, in planes, and in men. They are feeling the effects of those losses.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Loss, Men, Careers
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