Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes - Page 18

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• We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will.... We must be the great arsenal of democracy.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Men, Skills

  'Fireside Chat' radio broadcast, 29 December 1940, in 'Public Papers' (1941) vol. 9, p. 643

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• This law represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means completed--a structure intended to lessen the force of possible future depressions, to act as a protection to future administrations of the Government against the necessity of going deeply into debt to furnish relief to the needy--a law to flatten out the peaks and valleys of deflation and of inflation--in other words, a law that will take care of human needs and at the same time provide for the United States an economic structure of vastly greater soundness.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Mean, Government, Law

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• Friendship among nations, as among individuals, calls for constructive efforts to muster the forces of humanity in order that an atmosphere of close understanding and cooperation may be cultivated.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Friendship, Order, Effort

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

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• I have a terrific pain in the back of my head.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Pain, Terrific

  "Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom". Book by Conrad Black, page 1110, 2003.

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• Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Work, Men, Two

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• Our security is not a matter of weapons alone. The arm that wields them must be strong, the eye that guides them clear, the will that directs them indomitable.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Strong, War, Eye

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) (1943). “Development of United States Foreign Policy: Addresses and Messages of Franklin D. Roosevelt Compiled from Official Sources, Intended to Present the Chronological Development of the Foreign Policy of the United States from the Announcement of the Good Neighbor Policy in 1933, Including the War Declarations”

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• The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Organization, Purpose

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• My own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Party, Long, Liberty

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.31, Best Books on

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• These are bad days for all of us who remember always that when real world forces come into conflict, the final result is never as dark as we mortals guess it in very difficult days.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Real, Bad Day, Dark

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• Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Art, Literature, World

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.84, Best Books on

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• Those (who) seek to establish systems of Government based on the regimentation of all Human Beings by a handful of individual rulers...call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Order, Liberty

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• For out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties. New kingdoms were built upon concentration of control over material things. Through new uses of corporations, banks and securities, new machinery of industry and agriculture, of labor and capital - all undreamed of by the Fathers - the whole structure of modern life was impressed into this royal service.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Father, Agriculture, Civilization

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

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• How many people in the United States do you think will be willing to go to war to free Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania?

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Thinking, People

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• Once I prophesied that this generation of Americans had a rendezvous with destiny. That prophecy now comes true. To us much is given; more is expected. This generation will nobly save or mainly lose the last best hope of earth. The way is plain, peaceful, generous just. A way, which if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Destiny, Forever, Peaceful

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• 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.

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• 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

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• [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

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• Goods produced under conditions which do not meet a rudimentary standard to decency should be regarded as contraband and not allowed to pollute the channels of international commerce.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Presidential, Standards, Should

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• 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

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• I ask especially that no state shall, by law or otherwise, authorize the return of the saloon, either in its old form or in some modern guise.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Law, Return, Modern

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

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• The only thing we have to fear...is audiovisual glitches at our annual event.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Events, Glitches, Annuals

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• 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

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• This nation asks for action, and action now.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Action, Asks, Nations

  First Inaugural Address, Delivered 4 March 1933

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• All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Realizing, Public Service

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• We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.... [The organized moneyed people] are unanimous in their hate for me and I welcome their hatred.... I should like to have it said of my second administration that these forces met their master.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Hate, Government, People

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