Franklin Delano Roosevelt

I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will
never survive as a happy and fertile oasis read more

I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will
never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded
by a cruel desert of dictatorship.

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue read more

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.

A nation, like a person, has a mind--a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself, read more

A nation, like a person, has a mind--a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself, that understands the hopes and needs of its neighbors--all the other nations that live within the narrowing circle of the world.

Our national debt, after all, is an internal debt, owed not only by the nation but to the nation. If read more

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 the interest they will pay that interest to themselves.

I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in read more

I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country. Several of the best friends I have got are Communists.