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Friendship among nations, as among individuals, calls for constructive efforts to muster the forces of humanity in order that an atmosphere of close understanding and cooperation may be cultivated.

Friendship among nations, as among individuals, calls for constructive efforts to muster the forces of humanity in order that an atmosphere of close understanding and cooperation may be cultivated.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Friendship, Order, Effort
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

I have a terrific pain in the back of my head.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Pain, Terrific
"Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom". Book by Conrad Black, page 1110, 2003.

The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Government, Organization, Purpose

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Work, Men, Two

Our security is not a matter of weapons alone. The arm that wields them must be strong, the eye that guides them clear, the will that directs them indomitable.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Strong, War, Eye
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) (1943). “Development of United States Foreign Policy: Addresses and Messages of Franklin D. Roosevelt Compiled from Official Sources, Intended to Present the Chronological Development of the Foreign Policy of the United States from the Announcement of the Good Neighbor Policy in 1933, Including the War Declarations”

My own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Party, Long, Liberty
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.31, Best Books on

These are bad days for all of us who remember always that when real world forces come into conflict, the final result is never as dark as we mortals guess it in very difficult days.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Real, Bad Day, Dark

Those (who) seek to establish systems of Government based on the regimentation of all Human Beings by a handful of individual rulers...call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Government, Order, Liberty

Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Art, Literature, World
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.84, Best Books on

The only thing we have to fear...is audiovisual glitches at our annual event.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Events, Glitches, Annuals

Goods produced under conditions which do not meet a rudimentary standard to decency should be regarded as contraband and not allowed to pollute the channels of international commerce.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Presidential, Standards, Should

The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
War, Hands, World
Address at University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va., 10 June 1940

I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mother, Children, Hate
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.289, Best Books on

All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Government, Realizing, Public Service

On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Crush, War, Army

[M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature in such a way as to harm their neighbors and especially to harm the future generations of Americans. If many years ago we had had the necessary knowledge, and especially the necessary willingness on the part of the Federal Government, we would have saved a sum, a sum of money which has cost the taxpayers of America two billion dollars.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Government, Years, Two

How many people in the United States do you think will be willing to go to war to free Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania?

Franklin D. Roosevelt
War, Thinking, People

I ask especially that no state shall, by law or otherwise, authorize the return of the saloon, either in its old form or in some modern guise.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Law, Return, Modern
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.... [The organized moneyed people] are unanimous in their hate for me and I welcome their hatred.... I should like to have it said of my second administration that these forces met their master.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hate, Government, People

What worries me, especially, is that public opinion over here is patting itself on the back every morning and thanking God for theAtlantic Ocean (and the Pacific Ocean). We greatly underestimate the serious implications to our own future.... Things move with such terrific speed these days, that it is really essential to us to think in broader terms and, in effect, to warn the American people that they, too, should think of possible ultimate results in Europe and the Far East.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Morning, War, Moving

We must be the great arsenal of Democracy.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
History, Presidential, Democracy
Radio broadcast, 29 Dec. 1940. According to Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas, The Wise Men (1986), this slogan was picked up for Roosevelt's address after it was used in conversation by John McCloy, who had gotten it from Jean Monnet.

We are fighting to save a great and precious form of government for ourselves and for the world.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fighting, Government, America
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

The Nazi danger to our Western world has long ceased to be a mere possibility. The danger is here now--not only from a military enemy but from an enemy of all law, all liberty, all morality, all religion.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Military, Law, Long
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

In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Responsibility, Power, Framework

Once I prophesied that this generation of Americans had a rendezvous with destiny. That prophecy now comes true. To us much is given; more is expected. This generation will nobly save or mainly lose the last best hope of earth. The way is plain, peaceful, generous just. A way, which if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Destiny, Forever, Peaceful