Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes About World War 2

Quotes about: World War 2

• Dec. 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy -
  No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Winning, Long, People

  Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation, delivered 8 December 1941, Washington, D.C.

• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Leadership, Bullying

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1933 See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Thoreau 16; Wellington 3

• (Mariners) have written one of its most brilliant chapters. They have delivered the goods when and where needed in every theater of operations and across every ocean in the biggest, the most difficult and dangerous job ever undertaken. As time goes on, there will be greater public understanding of our merchant's fleet record during this war.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Jobs, War, Ocean

• Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Determination, People, History

  Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation, delivered 8 December 1941, Washington, D.C.

• Yesterday, December 7, 1941 a date which will live in infamy the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan... We will gain the inevitable triumph so help us God.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Yesterday, America

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address to the Congress Asking That a State of War Be Declared Between the United States and Japan, www.loc.gov. December 8, 1941.

• We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  People, History, Cost

  The Four Freedoms, delivered 6 January, 1941 (photo of FDR in 1936)

• We must be the great arsenal of democracy. For us this is an emergency as serious as war itself. We must apply ourselves to our task with the same resolution, the same sense of urgency, the same spirit of patriotism and sacrifice as we would show were we at war.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Sacrifice, Democracy

  The Great Arsenal of Democracy, delivered 29 December 1940

• December 7, 1941. A date which will live in infamy.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Air Force, December

  Address to joint session of Congress asking for declaration of war on Japan, 8 Dec. 1941

• There is one front and one battle where everyone in the United States-every man, woman, and child-is in action, and will be privileged to remain in action throughout this war. That front is right here at home, in our daily lives, and in our daily tasks.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Children, War, Home

  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

• Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Boys, Presidential

  Speech, Boston, Mass., 30 Oct. 1940 See Lyndon Johnson 9

• 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 forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Pyramids, Poverty

  Radio address, 7 Apr. 1932 See Sumner 3

• We must be the great arsenal of Democracy.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  History, Presidential, Democracy

  Radio broadcast, 29 Dec. 1940. According to Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas, The Wise Men (1986), this slogan was picked up for Roosevelt's address after it was used in conversation by John McCloy, who had gotten it from Jean Monnet.

• On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Crush, War, Army

• 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

• As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Pride, World

  The Four Freedoms, delivered 6 January, 1941 (photo of FDR in 1936)

• 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

• I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  People, World War 2, Deals

  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

• The American People in their Righteous Might will win through to Absolute Victory.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Winning, People, Victory

  Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation, delivered 8 December 1941, Washington, D.C.

• Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Democracy, World War 2

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

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