FDR

We in the next few years, when peace comes, will be able to devote more thought to making our country more useful—every acre of it.

Only God can make a tree.

We are fighting this war and we are holding this election both for the same essential reason: because we have faith in democracy.

There is one thing that is not doubtful about this State and that is the ability of its people to produce.

I am in the middle of a war.

I would hate to be reelected by a little bit of a vote.

The American people have a good habit—the habit of going right ahead and accomplishing the impossible.

The future of the worker, the future of the farmer lies in the well-being of private enterprise.

Those incompetent blunderers and bunglers in Washington have passed a lot of excellent laws.

The special credit and capital requirements of small business are going to be met.

After this war is won we must be prepared to move forward, in the implementation of these rights, to new goals of human happiness and well-being.

I have a conviction that the people of Indiana, the majority of the voters of Indiana, know that I am the same Franklin Roosevelt who started in campaigning twelve years ago.

The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation.

I shall, however, feel free to report to the people the facts about matters of concern to them and especially to correct any misrepresentations.

We have got to go out and do something!

They shall come back to a place where all persons, regardless of race, and color, or creed or place of birth, can live in peace and honor and human dignity.

The American people are prepared to meet the problems of peace in the same bold way that they have met the problems of war.

The future of America, like its past, must be made by deeds—not words.

We owe it to all of our people who have given so much in this war—we owe it to our children—to keep that winning team together.

We are not going to turn the clock back!

These men could not have been armed, and they could not be equipped as they are, had it not been for the miracle of our production here back home.

I want to express the conviction that the greatest of our past American heroes... would consider themselves honored to be associated with our fighting men of today.

I said this: 'We cannot wage this war in a defensive spirit.'

The most important fact in our national life today is the essential fact of eleven million young Americans in our armed forces.

I can speak as one who knows something of the feelings of a parent with sons who are in the battle line overseas.