FDR

I hope that some method will be worked out so that all of the islands can be brought into an economic and social team.

I suppose the easiest thing to say is to paraphrase an old cigarette advertisement: there isn't a controversy in a carload of speeches.

I do not believe in protest voting.

I express the sincere hope that you and not Mr. Dewey will be our next Governor.

I want to make it perfectly clear that I meant what I said—that you are without any question the best qualified of all the candidates for the Governorship.

I accept as a fact that I can count on full cooperation and unity between the conduct of the affairs of New York State and those of the national Government if you are elected.

Under you there will be no danger that the long series of enactments of liberal legislation for the benefit of the average citizen during the past three Governorships will be repealed or emasculated.

There are no strings to this endorsement.

That's what we are trying to avoid.

I think they were too old to march 25 miles a day with heavy equipment.

These Mexican workers have crossed the border with great enthusiasm.

Perhaps an effort should be made to be a little more drastic in preventing the manufacture of luxuries.

Mirabile dictu, who are still physically fit at the age of forty that might be drafted.

I don't know that I would change one word of what I said at that time.

I think it goes a great deal farther than that —infinitely farther.

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 6 of the Pay Readjustment Act of 1942, I hereby prescribe the following regulations governing the payment of rental allowances to officers of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps…

We will use every effort to help him to get labor; but, at the same time, he and the people of his community must use ingenuity and cooperative effort to produce crops, and livestock and dairy products.

Whatever our individual circumstances or opportunities—we are all in it, and our spirit is good.

We have faith; deeds will implement it.

It is useless to win battles if the cause for which we fight these battles is lost.

Our cause is not only liberty for ourselves but liberation for others.

Every citizen wants to know what essential war work he can do the best.

I like to remember on this significant anniversary the words of a contemporary poet: 'Columbus found a world and had no chart, save one that faith deciphered in the skies.'

We have made it entirely clear that the United Nations seek no mass reprisals against the populations of Germany or Italy or Japan.

The greatest defense against all such propaganda, of course, is the common sense of the common people.