We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTRemember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
-
-
The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT -
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT -
We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT -
We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT -
Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT -
The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT -
Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT -
The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT -
Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT -
We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT -
I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT -
We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT -
The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT -
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT -
The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT