Franklin D. Roosevelt Military Quotes

Quotes about: Military

• I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Military, Good Luck, Army

  "Roosevelt and Howe" y Alfred B. Rollins, Jr., (p. 153), 1962.

• Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Military, War, Inspirational Life

• 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

• They have given their sons to the military services. They have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels. They have made the planes and welded the tanks. Riveted the ships and rolled the shells.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Military, War, Son

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1942, Volume 11”, p.355, Best Books on

• The Nazi danger to our Western world has long ceased to be a mere possibility. The danger is here now--not only from a military enemy but from an enemy of all law, all liberty, all morality, all religion.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Military, Law, Long

  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

• You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Military, Destiny, Civilization

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.564, Best Books on

• While things on the surface seem more quiet than at any time since last summer, I do not like the maintenance of what amounts to almost full mobilization in aggressor countries. Surely they cannot afford it and if they had any definite policy of trying to work out economic salvation (except by arms) they would be showing some signs of cutting military expenditures.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Summer, Country, Military

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