Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the President of the United States from 1933 to 1945. A Democrat, he won a record four presidential elections and dominated his party after 1932 as a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war. His program for relief, recovery and reform, known as the New Deal, involved...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth30 January 1882
CityHyde Park, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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.
My own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism.
For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government . . . costs too much. I shall not stop that preaching.
To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in our Federal government. . . The individual sovereignty of our states must first be destroyed.
I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.
We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.
It is the purpose of the government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the welfare and rights of the many are conserved.
The function of Government must be to favor no small group at the expense of its duty to protect the rights of personal freedom and of private property of all its citizens.
A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest-at the command-of his head.
Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed by themselves against abuse of freedom.
You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies.
The driving force of a nation lies in its spiritual purpose, made effective by free, tolerant but unremitting national will.
Lord, reform Thy world, beginning with me.
There is no group in America that can withstand the force of an aroused public opinion.