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Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Franklin D Roosevelt in short, often referred to by his initials FDR, was a US politician and attorney who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

Wisdom & Quotes

  • I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.
- Presidential nomination acceptance speech, 1932
  • The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- First Inaugural Address, 1933
  • Peace, like charity, begins at home.
- August 14, 1936
  • To some generations much is given. Of others much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
- Second Presidential nomination acceptance speech, 1936
  • Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.
- speech, October 21, 1936
  • The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
- letter to state governments, February 26, 1937
  • No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
- letter to the NAACP, June 25, 1938
  • A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.
- radio speech, October 26, 1939
  • A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
- radio speech, October 26, 1939
  • A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backward.
- radio speech, October 26, 1939
  • A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
- radio speech, October 13, 1940
  • We must be the great arsenal of democracy.
- radio speech, December 29, 1940
  • A full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
- speech, November 1, 1940
  • We look forward to a world founded upon four essential freedoms (freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear).
- speech, January 6, 1941
  • Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
- speech, May 4, 1941
  • Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
- speech to Congress
  • He may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch.
- referring to Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua, cited by William Pfaff in The New Yorker, May 27, 1985

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