Our national debt after all is an internal debt owed not only by the Nation but to the Nation. If our children have to pay interest on it they will pay that interest to themselves. A reasonable internal debt will not impoverish our children or put the Nation into bankruptcy.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Quotes
I believe in individualism… up to the point where the individualist starts to operate at the expense of society.
Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
All of our people – except full-blooded Indians – are immigrants, or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came here on the Mayflower. We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions – bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against […]
I am everlastingly angry at those who assert vociferously that the Four Freedoms and the Atlantic Charter are nonsense because they are unattainable. If those people had lived a century and a half ago they would have sneered and said that the Declaration of Independence was utter piffle. If they had lived nearly a thousand […]
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities – a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
We remember Will Rogers with gratitude and affection because he knew how to revive the spirit of laughter in hearts that had known too much of the distractions and anxieties of a busy world. His mission in life was to cheer, to comfort and to console. There was something infectious about his humour. His appeal […]
The social objective… is to do what any honest government of any country would do: to try to increase the security and the happiness of a larger number of people in all occupations of life and in all parts of the country; to give them more of the good things of life, to give them […]
Peace, like charity, begins at home.
These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, or my wife, or on my sons. No, not content with that, they now include my little dog, Fala. (During the 1944 campaign a rumor was circulated that incumbent President Roosevelt had sent a Navy destroyer to the Aleutian Islands, at a cost of […]
