Roosevelt
Quotes

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression---everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way-everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want...everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear...anywhere in the world.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

We must be the great arsenal of democracy.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

We stand committed to the proposition that freedom is not a half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

We will be enormously strengthened if we can show that we are willing to fight to the very last ditch for what we believe in.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

We, too, born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing to fight to maintain freedom. We and all others who believe as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

When two flags are hoisted on the same pole, one is always hoisted undermost. The hyphenated American always hoists the American flag undermost.
- Theodore Roosevelt

When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph. So help us God.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Without the ability to be gay and to treat serious things lightly after the serious thinking is done and the decisions reached, I doubt whether any man could long carry the job of being President of the United States.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt