Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes about World War 2
I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.
Speech to Democratic National Convention accepting presidential nomination, Chicago, Ill., 2 July 1932. The earliest figurative use of the term new deal that has been found is in a letter from John Rathbone to Nicholas Biddle, 18 Jan. 1834, referring to "a new bank and a New Deal." Roosevelt or his speechwriters may have picked up the phrase from earlier political usages by Mark Twain or Woodrow Wilson. See Twain 40; Woodrow Wilson 4
Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy