Quotes About Franklin D. Roosevelt

Men will thank God on their knees, a hundred years from now, that Franklin D. Roosevelt was in the White House, in a position to give leadership to the thought of the American people and direction to the activities of their government, in that dark hour when a powerful and ruthless barbarism threatened to overrun the civilization of the Western World.

Franklin D. Roosevelt is no crusader. He is no tribune of the people. He is no enemy of entrenched privilege. He is a pleasant man who, without any important qualifications for the office, would very much like to be President.

It was now December 7, 1941; the date that Franklin D. Roosevelt was destined to declare would live in infamy.

My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was.

Franklin [D. Roosevelt] had a good way of simplifying things. He made people feel that he had a real understanding of things and they felt they had about the same understanding.

I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

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

When Franklin D. Roosevelt was asked what book he could give the Soviets to teach them about the advantages of American society, he pointed to the Sears catalogue.

Continued dependence on relief inducers a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber.

Higgledy-piggledy, Franklin D. Roosevelt High over Jutland flew In from the East. 'Well,' quipped a Minister Plenipotentiary, 'Something is Groton in Denmark, at least.

Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined.

I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt had to find a way to help the American people. In 1933, he created a relief program known as the New Deal. Two years later, he expanded the New Deal by adding the Works Progress Administration, which was renamed the Work Projects Administration in 1939.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke out strongly against war profiteers, saying, "I don't want to see a single war millionaire created in the United States as a result of this world disaster.

he could remember the prewar days, the other times. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the World's Fair; the former better world.

When Franklin D. Roosevelt launched Social Security in 1935, he did not present it as expressing the mutual obligation of citizens to one another. ... Rather than offer a communal rationale, FDR argued that such rights were essential to "true individual freedom," adding, "necessitous men are not free men.