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
Sep 7, 1943

Your fellow Americans have given a magnificent account of themselves.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Sep 7, 1943

Every dollar that you invest in the Third War Loan is your personal message of defiance to our common enemies.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Sep 7, 1943

I know I speak for every man and woman throughout the Americas when I say that we Americans will not be satisfied to send our troops into the fire of the enemy with equipment inferior in any way.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Sep 6, 1943

I think that it is a pretty fair guess to say that there will be a transition period.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Sep 6, 1943

The Congress, in passing and extending the Lend-Lease Act, made it plain that the United States wants no new war debts to jeopardize the coming peace.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Sep 6, 1943

The victors will maintain the peace during that transition period, and they will try out things.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Sep 6, 1943

Victory and a secure peace are the only coin in which we can be repaid.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Sep 6, 1943

People are awfully—what will I say?- immature when they talk about 'after the war.'

presidency.ucsb.edu
Sep 3, 1943

We well may be proud of that achievement for it has done much to make possible the successes of the armed forces of the United Nations.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Sep 3, 1943

That determination is shared by all Americans: by workers, by management, and by farmers.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Sep 3, 1943

It is altogether fitting that these groups of free Americans are working today.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Sep 3, 1943

To make time and thus save lives and suffering, our American workers, employers, and farmers will need not only to maintain their production pace but to increase it.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Sep 2, 1943

The war effort will be unduly impeded or delayed by such interruption.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Sep 2, 1943

Commander Henry B. Campbell, who was transferred by Executive Order No. 9113 of March 28, 1942, to the service and jurisdiction of the Navy Department, is hereby returned to the service and jurisdiction of the Coast and Geodetic Survey.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Sep 2, 1943

The above-named officer shall be returned to the Coast and Geodetic Survey when the present national emergency ceases to exist.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Sep 2, 1943

The above-named officer shall, while under the jurisdiction of the Navy Department, serve under his commission in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and while so serving shall constitute a part of the active naval forces of the United States…

presidency.ucsb.edu
Sep 2, 1943

Lieutenant (j.g.) Daniel E. Whelan, Jr., is hereby transferred from the Coast and Geodetic Survey to the service and jurisdiction of the Navy Department.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Aug 30, 1943

General Eisenhower has, by skillful planning and direction, made an outstanding contribution to the war effort of the Allied Nations.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Aug 29, 1943

The loss to this Nation is just as real as if the destruction had been wrought by enemy bombers over America, or by saboteurs.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Aug 29, 1943

This Nation's war program is menaced by an alarming increase in preventable fire losses.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Aug 29, 1943

Whereas by Executive Order No. 9366 of July 30, 1943, the Secretary of the Interior was designated as agent for the sale and distribution of electric power and energy generated at the Denison Dam Project.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Aug 29, 1943

Only by this united endeavor can America guard her productive power against fire and eliminate a major hazard that threatens seriously to reduce supplies of war materials, food, clothing, and other essentials required by our fighting men…

presidency.ucsb.edu
Aug 29, 1943

I earnestly request the people of the country to take unusually active measures during that week, and throughout the year, to conserve our human and material resources from destruction by fire.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Aug 26, 1943

I hereby except from the classification 'alien enemy' all persons whom the Attorney General, the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization, or any District Director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service shall, after…

presidency.ucsb.edu
Aug 24, 1943

Every one of the United Nations believes that only a real and lasting peace can justify the sacrifices we are making.

presidency.ucsb.edu

Politicians like FDR