Franklin D. Roosevelt History Quotations

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace-business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. Never before in history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hatred for me - and I welcome their hatred. I should like to have it said of my first administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second administration that in it these forces met their master.- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Speech at Madison Square Garden

Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.

We must be the great arsenal of Democracy.

We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.

The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.

Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you.

First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.