FDR
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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.
The evil characteristic that makes a Nazi a Nazi is his utter inability to understand and therefore to respect the qualities or the rights of his fellow men.
I would rather be a builder than a wrecker, hoping always that the structure of life is growing—not dying.
Every one of the United Nations believes that only a real and lasting peace can justify the sacrifices we are making.
We in the Americas have become a consideration to every propaganda office and to every general staff beyond the seas.
I hope very much that because I have had the privilege of knowing you for a great many years, that he will come over again one of these days—the sooner the better—to visit you.
We did not choose this war—and that 'we' includes each and every one of the United Nations.
I am everlastingly angry only at those who assert vociferously that the four freedoms and the Atlantic Charter are nonsense because they are unattainable.
I never felt more sure about anything than I do about the fact that these conferences are an indispensable part of the successful conduct of the war.
An employee whose active services are terminated as a result of the expiration of a statute in connection with the administration of which he is employed and who at the time of such expiration has not exhausted his accumulated and current…
Entire unity of aim and method should be maintained at the summit of the war direction.
We cannot afford in any way to assume that military and naval or air men can win the war alone.
We ought to realize that this is a war throughout the world, that we are looking at it as a world war.
It would not be helpful to the fighting troops to make any announcement of the decisions which have been reached.
This war is not being run by conferences, it goes far deeper than that.
This Order shall become effective at the close of business on August 23, 1943.





