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Where freedom of religion has been attacked, the attack has come from sources opposed to democracy. Where democracy has been overthrown, the spirit of free worship has disappeared. And where religion and democracy have

Where freedom of religion has been attacked, the attack has come from sources opposed to democracy. Where democracy has been overthrown, the spirit of free worship has disappeared. And where religion and democracy have vanished, good faith and reason in international affairs have given way to strident ambition and brute force.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ambition, Democracies Have, Democracy
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

So many figures are quoted to prove so many things. Sometimes it depends on what paper you read or what broadcast you listen in on.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Paper, Sometimes, Figures

[The United States is] founded on the principles of Christianity

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Bible, God, Religious

Nationwide thinking, nationwide planning and nationwide action are the three great essentials to prevent nationwide crises for future generations to struggle through.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Struggle, Thinking, Essentials
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.181, Best Books on

A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest-at the command-of his head.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Men, Hands, Use
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1939, Volume 8”, p.556, Best Books on

Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Men, Self, Practice
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Men, Freedom Of Speech, Use

It is to the real advantage of every producer, every manufacturer and every merchant to cooperate in the improvement of working conditions, because the best customer of American industry is the well-paid worker.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Real, Presidential, Unions
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.504, Best Books on

The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Peace, Party, Men

The fundamental idea...is that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process of making for the enrichment of the lives of all of us.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Country, Ideas, People

We must save the Constitution from the [Supreme] Court and the Court from itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Politics, Constitution, Court
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise. Private enterprise, indeed, became too private. It became privileged enterprise, not free enterprise.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Enterprise, Free Enterprise, Private Enterprise

The most difficult place in the world to get a clear and open perspective of the country as a whole is Washington.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Country, Perspective, World
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

I regard reduction in Federal spending as one of the most important issues in this campaign. In my opinion it is the most direct and effective contribution that Government can make to business.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Issues, Government, Important
Franklin D. Roosevelt's campaign address on the Federal Budget in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (October 19, 1932), as quoted in "The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1928-1932" (p. 809), 1938.

Is the United States going to decide, are the people of this country going to decide that their Federal Government shall in the future have no right under any implied power or any court-approved power to enter into a solution of a national economic problem, but that that national economic problem must be decided only by the States?... We thought we were solving it, and now it has been thrown right straight in our faces. We have been relegated to the horse-and-buggy definition of interstate commerce.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Country, Horse, Government

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

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Meaning Of Life, Social, Situation

To reach a port we must set sail

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Sailing, Nautical, Port

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson - and I am not wholly excepting the Administration of W. W. The country is going through a repetition of Jackson's fight with the Bank of the United States - only on a far bigger and broader basis.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Country, Real, Fighting
"F.D.R.: His Personal Letters, 1928-1945" edited by Elliott Roosevelt New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, (p. 373), 1950.

I hope that you have re-read the Constitution of the United States in these past few weeks. Like the Bible, it ought to be read again and again.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Past, United States, Constitution
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

The peoples of many countries are being taxed to the point of poverty and starvation in order to enable Governments to engage in a mad race in armament which, if permitted to continue, may well result in war. This grave menace to the peace of the world is due in no small measure to the uncontrolled activities of the manufacturers and merchants of engines of destruction, and it it must be met by the concerted actions of the peoples of all Nations.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Country, Race, Government
"Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1934, Volume 3".

The public schools shall be free from sectarian influences and, above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Attitude, School, Presidential

To stand upon ramparts and die for our principles is heroic, but to sally forth to battle and win for our principles is something more than heroic.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hero, Winning, Battle

I am particularly interested in the indications that the people seem to understand and approve the necessity of pursuing the course that will prevent a further effort on the part of the German peoples to continue the struggle for world domination, even though they are thoroughly beaten in this war.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
War, Struggle, People

The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Education, Carpe Diem, People
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.418, Best Books on

Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Men, Sweat, Paying Taxes
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6”, p.798, Best Books on