Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes about History

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The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Money, Economic Inequality, History

Second Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1937

If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Eye, Fire, History

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

We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

People, History, Cost

The Four Freedoms, delivered 6 January, 1941 (photo of FDR in 1936)

First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Fear, Patriotic, History

First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1933 See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Thoreau 16; Wellington 3

Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Determination, People, History

Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation, delivered 8 December 1941, Washington, D.C.

The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Country, Order, History

The Four Freedoms, delivered 6 January, 1941 (photo of FDR in 1936)

Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Rocks, Government, History

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1933, Volume 2”, p.50, Best Books on

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.