Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes About Neighbors

Quotes about: Neighbors

• In the field of world policy; I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Presidential, Fields, World

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1933. According to Hans Sperber and Travis Trittschuh, American Political Terms: An Historical Dictionary, Herbert Hoover prominently used the term "good neighbor" during his tour of South America after the 1928 presidential election.

• The trade agreement which I had the privilege of signing with your Prime Minister last autumn is tangible evidence of the desire of the people of both countries to practice what they preach when they speak of the good neighbor. In the solution of the grave problems that face the world today, frank dealing, cooperation and a spirit of give and take between nations is more important than ever before.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Autumn, Agreement

• The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Hands, World

  Address at University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va., 10 June 1940

• A nation, like a person, has a mind - a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself, that understands the hopes and needs of its neighbors - all the other nations that live within the narrowing circle of the world

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Circles, Mind, Needs

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

• On this tenth day of June, nineteen hundred and forty, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.... In our unity, in our American unity we will pursue two obvious and simultaneous courses; we will extend to the opponents of force the material resources of this nation, and at the same time we will harness and speed up the use of those resources in order that we ourselves in the Americas may have equipment and training equal to the task of any emergency and every defense.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Hands, Order

• [M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature in such a way as to harm their neighbors and especially to harm the future generations of Americans. If many years ago we had had the necessary knowledge, and especially the necessary willingness on the part of the Federal Government, we would have saved a sum, a sum of money which has cost the taxpayers of America two billion dollars.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Years, Two

• The essential qualities of a true Pan Americanism must be the same as those which constitute a good neighbor; namely, mutual understanding, and through such understanding, a sympathetic appeciation of the other's point of view. It is only in this manner that we can hope to build up a system of which confidence, friendship, and good will are the cornerstones.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Views, Understanding, Quality

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

• Religion, by teaching man his relationship to God, gives the individual a sense of his own dignity and teaches him to respect himself by respecting his neighbors.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Teaching, Men, Giving

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

• Economic diseases are highly communicable. It follows therefore that the economic health of every country is a proper matter of concern to all its neighbors, near or distant.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Disease, Matter

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