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 have a terrific headache.
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred.
I love it--I just love it.
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.
There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
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.