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
Research is one of the Nation's very greatest resources and the role of the Federal Government in supporting and stimulating it needs to reexamined.
Dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant.
The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit. It is inimical to the dictates of a sound policy. It is in violation of the traditions of America.
I believe that we are going to get along very well with him [Josef Stalin] and the Russian people - very well indeed.
Industrial combination is not wrong in itself. The danger lies in taking government into partnership.
The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party.
For every advance that the Japanese have made since they started their frenzied career of conquest, they have had to pay a very heavy toll in warships, in transports, in planes, and in men. They are feeling the effects of those losses.
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.
Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it.
The people of America are in agreement in defending their liberties at any cost, and the first line of that defense lies in the protection of economic security.
Preparation for defense is an inalienable prerogative of a sovereign state.
The American people want their government to act, and not merely to talk, whenever and wherever there is a threat to world peace.
If you have spent two years in bed trying to wiggle your big toe, everything else seems easy.
A point has been reached where the peoples of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill-will, of marked trends toward aggression, of increasing armaments, of shortening tempers--a situation which has in it many of the elements that lead to the tragedy of general war.... Peace is threatened by those who seek selfish power.