Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes About History

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  • Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

    Remarks before Daughters of the American Revolution Convention, Washington, D.C., 21 Apr. 1938. Often paraphrased as Roosevelt's addressing the DAR as "my fellow immigrants."
  • We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.

    People  
    The Four Freedoms, delivered 6 January, 1941 (photo of FDR in 1936)
  • We must be the great arsenal of Democracy.

    Radio broadcast, 29 Dec. 1940. According to Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas, The Wise Men (1986), this slogan was picked up for Roosevelt's address after it was used in conversation by John McCloy, who had gotten it from Jean Monnet.
  • 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... We will gain the inevitable triumph so help us God.

    War  
    Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address to the Congress Asking That a State of War Be Declared Between the United States and Japan, www.loc.gov. December 8, 1941.
  • If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free. If in other lands the eternal truths of the past are threatened by intolerance we must provide a safe place for their perpetuation.

    Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.418, Best Books on
  • If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you.

    Franklin D. Roosevelt (2008). “Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944”, Red & Black Pub
  • 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.

    People  
    Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation, delivered 8 December 1941, Washington, D.C.
  • 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.

    First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1933 See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Thoreau 16; Wellington 3
  • Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.

    Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1933, Volume 2”, p.50, Best Books on
  • 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.

    Second Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1937
  • The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.

    Country  
    The Four Freedoms, delivered 6 January, 1941 (photo of FDR in 1936)
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Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • Born: January 30, 1882
  • Died: April 12, 1945
  • Occupation: 32nd U.S. President