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For out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties. New kingdoms were built upon concentration of control over material things. Through new uses of corporations, banks and securities, new

For out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties. New kingdoms were built upon concentration of control over material things. Through new uses of corporations, banks and securities, new machinery of industry and agriculture, of labor and capital - all undreamed of by the Fathers - the whole structure of modern life was impressed into this royal service.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Father, Agriculture, Civilization
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

This nation asks for action, and action now.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Action, Asks, Nations
First Inaugural Address, Delivered 4 March 1933

Any Government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that a continuation of that habit means the poorhouse.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mean, Government, Years
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6”, p.663, Best Books on

For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government . . . costs too much. I shall not stop that preaching.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Country, Government, Years
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed by themselves against abuse of freedom.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Strong, Men, People
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.364, Best Books on

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Country, War, People

Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Sacrifice, Long, Humanity

I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Justice, Diversity, Political
Second Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1937

Inside the polling booth every American man and woman stands as the equal of every other American man and woman. There they have no superiors. There they have no masters save their own minds and consciences.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Equality, Men, Mind

It is highly unlikely that an airplane, or fleet of them, could ever sink a fleet of Navy vessels under battle conditions.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Airplane, Navy, Battle

I propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work...More important, however, than the material gains will be the moral and spiritual value of such work.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Spiritual, Simple, Political

We do not see faith, hope, and charity as unattainable ideals, but we use them as stout supports of a nation fighting the fight for freedom in a modern civilization.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dream, Fighting, Civilization
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

On both sides of the line, we are so accustomed to an undefended boundary three thousand miles long that we are inclined perhaps to minimize its vast importance, not only to our own continuing relations but also to the example which it sets to the other nations of the world.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Long, Presidential, World
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.277, Best Books on

I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Love, Fighting, Answers

I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country. Several of the best friends I have got are Communists.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Country, Believe, Communism

Frankly, I do not know how to effect a permanency in American foreign policy.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Leadership, Foreign Policy, Knows

I believe that the fundamental proposition is that we must recognize that the hostilities in Europe, in Africa, and in Asia are all parts of a single world conflict. We must, consequently, recognize that our interests are menaced both in Europe and in the Far East.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Believe, Europe, East

As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
War, Pride, World
The Four Freedoms, delivered 6 January, 1941 (photo of FDR in 1936)

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation .

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Country, Mistake, Needs
Franklin D. Roosevelt (2009). “Looking Forward”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

We can see now that we Americans were caught unprepared, because we were ordinary human beings, following the best advice we had at the time. No one would have guessed in 1941 that we would be attacked in such an unsportsmanlike manner as we were. No one could have visualized Pearl Harbor, either out there or in Washington. But if we had known then what we know now, we would have expected an attack in 1941.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Time, Advice, Ordinary
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945, Volume 13”, p.214, Best Books on

And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

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

I am much interested and deeply impressed by what he has accomplished and by his evidenced honest purpose of restoring Italy and seeking to prevent general European trouble.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
President, Purpose, Honest

The chief problem is, of course, whether the marching of the general spirit of things is heading consciously or sub- consciously toward an idea of extension of boundaries.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
War, Ideas, Spirit

All work undertaken should be useful - not just for a day, or a year, but useful in the sense that it affords permanent improvement in living conditions or that it creates future new wealth for the Nation.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Years, Improvement, Wealth
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

On this tenth day of June, nineteen hundred and forty, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.... In our unity, in our American unity we will pursue two obvious and simultaneous courses; we will extend to the opponents of force the material resources of this nation, and at the same time we will harness and speed up the use of those resources in order that we ourselves in the Americas may have equipment and training equal to the task of any emergency and every defense.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
War, Hands, Order