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 · 193219455,694 total · peak 1937 (671)
1932: 1 quote1933: 315 quotes1934: 566 quotes1935: 519 quotes1936: 320 quotes1937: 671 quotes1938: 462 quotes1939: 86 quotes1940: 494 quotes1941: 517 quotes1942: 660 quotes1943: 493 quotes1944: 467 quotes1945: 123 quotes
Aug 21, 1941

There is a certain difference between the figure 4 and the figure 61.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Aug 21, 1941

But the fact that remains- that statement as a whole in every single item, except planes, was full of discrepancies that ran just as high as those discrepancies which the War Department says it's all right to mention.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Aug 21, 1941

I hereby approve and proclaim an increase in the rate of duty expressly fixed on crab meat.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Aug 21, 1941

I don't think any comment that could be printed is necessary.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Aug 20, 1941

The Congress and the President having heretofore determined through the Lend-Lease Act on the national policy of American aid to the democracies which east and west are waging war against dictatorships.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Aug 20, 1941

The periods of training and service of all persons inducted for training and service are hereby extended for a period of eighteen months.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Aug 20, 1941

The periods of enlistment of all persons who are now, or who may hereafter be, enlisted in the Regular Army are hereby extended for a period of eighteen months.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Aug 20, 1941

Inevitably such a peace would be a gift to Nazism to take breath—armed breath—for a second war to extend the control over Europe and Asia to the American Hemisphere itself.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Aug 20, 1941

It is ordered that the tract of public land at Tanana, adjoining the former military reservation of Fort Gibbon, Alaska, which was reserved and set apart by Executive Order No. 920 of July 25, 1908, as a military reservation for the use of…

presidency.ucsb.edu
Aug 20, 1941

It is perhaps unnecessary for me to call attention once more to the utter lack of validity of the spoken or written word of the Nazi Government.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Aug 20, 1941

No society of the world organized under the announced principles could survive without these freedoms which are a part of the whole freedom for which we strive.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Aug 20, 1941

The brigand Nations stopped abroad is there safety for the Americas.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Aug 20, 1941

There could be no safety in passivity; no sanctuary in isolation.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Aug 20, 1941

The periods of active military service of all members of the Regular Army Reserve are hereby extended for a period of eighteen months.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Aug 19, 1941

I hereby suspend for the duration of the emergencies proclaimed by me on September 8, 1939, and May 27, 1941, the above-mentioned provisions of law prohibiting more than eight hours of labor in any one day.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Aug 18, 1941

I think there are a lot of people who haven't waked up to the danger.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Aug 15, 1941

Miss Margaret Patterson may be appointed as Assistant Historical Aide at the Andrew Johnson National Monument.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Aug 15, 1941

The United States Coast Guard Ship Redwing is hereby transferred from the service and jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Treasury to the service and jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Navy.

presidency.ucsb.edu

Politicians like FDR