Political Quotes

FDR

The Public Record

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1933, until his death on April 12, 1945. A member of the Democratic Party, he was born in New York and is best known for his leadership during two of the most significant crises in American history: the Great Depression and World War II. Roosevelt implemented the New Deal, a series of programs and reforms aimed at economic recovery and social welfare, which fundamentally reshaped the role of the federal government in American life.

Quotes by year · 193219455,696 total · peak 1937 (671)
1932: 1 quote1933: 315 quotes1934: 567 quotes1935: 519 quotes1936: 320 quotes1937: 671 quotes1938: 462 quotes1939: 86 quotes1940: 494 quotes1941: 517 quotes1942: 660 quotes1943: 493 quotes1944: 467 quotes1945: 124 quotes
Oct 26, 1943

We must also teach them how to live useful and happy lives in freedom, justice, and decency.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Oct 26, 1943

Lack of money should not prevent any veteran of this war from equipping himself for the most useful employment for which his aptitudes and willingness qualify him.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Oct 26, 1943

The objective was to enable those young people, whose education had been interrupted, to resume their schooling.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Oct 26, 1943

Nothing will be more conducive to the maintenance of high morale in our troops than the knowledge that steps are being taken now to give them education and technical training when the fighting is over.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Oct 26, 1943

We have taught our youth how to wage war; we must also teach them how to live useful and happy lives in freedom, justice, and decency.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Oct 25, 1943

The Government's policy not to seek deferments for part-time or uncompensated employees or for dollar-a-year men is well established.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Oct 25, 1943

I am convinced that they are anxious to put on their country's uniform and that they have been kept, often against their will, in their present jobs.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Oct 25, 1943

The concept of a key position is narrowly limited to positions requiring an unusual degree of responsibility and specialized skill.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Oct 25, 1943

The use, possession, and control of the lands hereinafter described be, and they are hereby, transferred from the Department of Agriculture to the Tennessee Valley Authority.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Oct 25, 1943

They have found their 'haven' in the other Government departments and agencies?

presidency.ucsb.edu
Oct 25, 1943

Less than 5 percent of all of the civilian employees in these departments—or about 84,000—have been deferred for occupational reasons.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Oct 24, 1943

The use, possession, and control of the lands hereinafter described be, and they are hereby, transferred from the Department of Agriculture to the Tennessee Valley Authority.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Oct 18, 1943

I think the thing is that we are, I hope, gradually eliminating a whole lot of smoke and a lot of details, and coming down to brass tacks.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Oct 18, 1943

The success of that program will greatly reduce the shipping and future needs of France itself for American food.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Oct 18, 1943

Those same people, some of them professional farmers, they have been getting subsidies ever since 1933, and even before that.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Oct 17, 1943

The Director may provide for the internal organization and management of the Office of Civilian Defense.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Oct 17, 1943

The Director may provide for the internal organization and management of the Office of Defense Transportation.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Oct 17, 1943

The Director may provide for the internal organization and management of the Office of Scientific Research and Development and may appoint such advisory committees as he finds necessary to the performance of his duties and responsibilities.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Oct 17, 1943

The Coordinator may provide for the internal organization and management of the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Oct 15, 1943

There is hereby established a Special Emergency Board of three members to be selected by me from the National Railway Labor Panel to reconsider the claims for wage adjustments of the nonoperating railway employees.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Oct 14, 1943

This order shall supersede Executive Order No. 9206 of July 27, 1942.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Oct 14, 1943

There is hereby established a Board, to be known as the Advisory Board on Just Compensation.

presidency.ucsb.edu

Politicians like FDR