Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes about Fighting

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They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate.

They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Fighting, Sacrifice, Lust

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

We, too, born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing to fight to maintain freedom. We, and all others who believe as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Veterans Day, Believe, Fighting

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Love, Fighting, Goal

Interview, N.Y. Times, 22 Jan. 1911

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.

There comes a time in the affairs of men when they must prepare to defend not their homes alone but the tenets of faith and humanity on which their churches, their governments and their very foundations are set. The defense of religion, of democracy and of good faith among nations is all the same fight. To save one, we must now make up our minds to save all.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Home, Fighting, Men

We have faith that future generations will know here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

War, Ignorance, Fighting

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)

Of course we will continue to work for cheaper electricity in the homes and on the farms of America; for better and cheaper transportation; for low interest rates; for sounder home financing; for better banking; for the regulation of security issues; for reciprocal trade among nations and for the wiping out of slums. And my friends, for all of these we have only begun to fight.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Home, Fighting, Government

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

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

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

There has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that Americans have considerable industrial power - but that Americans are soft and decadent, that they cannot and will not unite and work and fight. ... Let them tell that to the Marines!

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Military, Fighting, Marine