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
Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.
It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.
It is fun to be in the same decade with you.
Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.
We must be the great arsenal of Democracy.
We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.
We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.
I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight.