Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes - Page 20

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• 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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• The chief problem is, of course, whether the marching of the general spirit of things is heading consciously or sub- consciously toward an idea of extension of boundaries.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Ideas, Spirit

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• We can see now that we Americans were caught unprepared, because we were ordinary human beings, following the best advice we had at the time. No one would have guessed in 1941 that we would be attacked in such an unsportsmanlike manner as we were. No one could have visualized Pearl Harbor, either out there or in Washington. But if we had known then what we know now, we would have expected an attack in 1941.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Time, Advice, Ordinary

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945, Volume 13”, p.214, Best Books on

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• We are not isolationists except in so far as we seek to isolate ourselves completely from war. Yet we must remember that so long as war exists on earth there will be some danger that even the Nation which most ardently desires peace may be drawn into war.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Long, Desire

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.288, Best Books on

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• 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

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• I believe that the fundamental proposition is that we must recognize that the hostilities in Europe, in Africa, and in Asia are all parts of a single world conflict. We must, consequently, recognize that our interests are menaced both in Europe and in the Far East.

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  Believe, Europe, East

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• We count, in the future as in the past, on the driving power of individual initiative, on the incentive of fair private profit, strengthened of course with the acceptance of those obligations to the public interest which rest upon us all.

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  Acceptance, Past, Incentives

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• I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country. Several of the best friends I have got are Communists.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Believe, Communism

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• And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Mother, Father, War

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

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• We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom of religious worship and freedom of education.

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  Religious, Patriotic, Men

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

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  War, Pride, World

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

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• 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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• Frankly, I do not know how to effect a permanency in American foreign policy.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Leadership, Foreign Policy, Knows

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