Quotes from Franklin D. Roosevelt

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

Yesterday, December seventh, 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.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Freedom of speech...Freedom of worship...Freedom from want...Freedom from fear.

I call for effort, courage, sacrifice, devotion. Granting the love of freedom, all of these are possible. And the love of freedom is still fierce and steady in the nation today. June 10, 1940

I love it--I just love it.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.

It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

More than just an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.

We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want.

The American people want their government to act, and not merely to talk, whenever and wherever there is a threat to world peace.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference to almost any other. The general raising of standards of modern civilization among all groups of people during the past half-century would have been impossible without that spreading of the knowledge of higher standards by means of advertising.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.

The motto of war is: "Let the strong survive; let the weak die." The motto of peace is: "Let the strong help the weak to survive."

Chamberlain's visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to me likean inevitable conflict within the next five years.

We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering

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

Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the germs of another world war will remain as a constant threat to mankind.

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