Roosevelt
Quotes

War is not merely justifiable, but imperative, upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare.
- Theodore Roosevelt

We Americans are vitally concerned in your defense of freedom. We are putting forth our energies, our resources and our organizing powers to give you the strength to regain and maintain a free world. We shall send you, in ever-increasing numbers, ships, planes, tanks, guns. This is our purpose and our pledge.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

We are determined to make every American citizen the subject of his country's interest and concern; and we will never regard any faithful, law-abiding group within our borders as superfluous. 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 too little.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

We are fighting as our fathers have fought, to uphold the doctrine that all men are equal in the sight of God. Those on the other side are striving to destroy this deep belief and to create a world in their own image-a world of tyranny and cruelty and serfdom.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

We are fighting in the quarrel of civilization against barbarism, of liberty against tyranny. Germany has become a menace to the whole world. She is the most dangerous enemy of liberty now existing.
- Theodore Roosevelt

We are moving forward to greater freedom, to greater security for the average man than he has ever known before in the history of America.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

We believe that the only whole man is a free man.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace, that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of other nations, far away. We have learned that we must live as men, and not as ostriches, nor as dogs in the manger. We have learned to be citizens of the world, members of the human community.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

We have room in this country for but one flag, the Stars and Stripes....We have room for but one loyalty, loyalty to the United States....We have room for but one language, the English language.
- Theodore Roosevelt

We look for a younger generation that is going to be more American than we are.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt