Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes About Justice

Quotes about: Justice

• All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, People, Justice

• We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Civilization, Justice, Diversity

  Greeting to the American Committee for Protection of Foreign-born, January 9, 1940.

• Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the constant omission of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Mistake, Government, Divine Justice

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

• In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Justice, Fellow Man

• 'Peace on earth, good will toward men' - democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy cannot live without that true religion which gives a nation a sense of justice and moral purpose.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Giving, Justice

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.572, Best Books on

• We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Carpe Diem, Law

  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

• Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the germs of another world war will remain as a constant threat to mankind.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Race, Justice

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1943, Volume 12”, p.74, Best Books on

• The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Real, Men, Justice

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.389, Best Books on

• It is a good thing to demand liberty for ourselves and for those who agree with us, but it is a better thing and a rarer thing to give liberty to others who do not agree with us.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Giving, Justice, President

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1933, Volume 2”, p.497, Best Books on

• I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Justice, Diversity, Political

  Second Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1937

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