A program whose basic thesis is, not that the system of free enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that it has not yet been tried! Franklin D. Roosevelt More Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt More Quotes From Franklin D. Roosevelt We are fighting to save a great and precious form of government for ourselves and for the world. Franklin D. Roosevelt governmentfightingamerica Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter. Franklin D. Roosevelt workmentwo Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise. Franklin D. Roosevelt private-enterprisefree-enterpriseenterprise All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed... and may only be opened in the presence of an agent of the I.R.S. Franklin D. Roosevelt agentssafedepression It is highly unlikely that an airplane, or fleet of them, could ever sink a fleet of Navy vessels under battle conditions. Franklin D. Roosevelt navyairplanebattle They have given their sons to the military services. They have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels. They have made the planes and welded the tanks. Riveted the ships and rolled the shells. Franklin D. Roosevelt militarywarson When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries is in danger. Franklin D. Roosevelt brokendangercountry As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed. Franklin D. Roosevelt pridewarworld I am perhaps being a bit facetious but if some of my good Baptist brethren in Georgia had done a little preaching from the pulpitagainst the K.K.K. in the '20s, I would have a little more genuine American respect for their Christianity! Franklin D. Roosevelt baptistsprejudicedone You'll have to learn that public life takes a lot of sweat; but it doesn't need to worry you. You won't always be right, but you mustn't suffer from being wrong. That's what kills people like us. Franklin D. Roosevelt confidencesweatpeople Preparation for defense is an inalienable prerogative of a sovereign state. Franklin D. Roosevelt sovereigndefensepreparation On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia. Franklin D. Roosevelt crusharmywar People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory. Franklin D. Roosevelt readingmemoriesbook That is the spiral galaxy in Andromeda. It is as large as our Milky Way. It is one of a hundred million galaxies. It consists of one hundred billion suns. Now I think we are small enough. Franklin D. Roosevelt sciencewaythinking This law represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means completed--a structure intended to lessen the force of possible future depressions, to act as a protection to future administrations of the Government against the necessity of going deeply into debt to furnish relief to the needy--a law to flatten out the peaks and valleys of deflation and of inflation--in other words, a law that will take care of human needs and at the same time provide for the United States an economic structure of vastly greater soundness. Franklin D. Roosevelt governmentlawmean All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. Franklin D. Roosevelt public-servicerealizinggovernment I ask especially that no state shall, by law or otherwise, authorize the return of the saloon, either in its old form or in some modern guise. Franklin D. Roosevelt modernreturnlaw It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management. Franklin D. Roosevelt personnelcollective-bargainingmanagement The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations. Franklin D. Roosevelt governmentorganizationpurpose Frankly, I do not know how to effect a permanency in American foreign policy. Franklin D. Roosevelt foreign-policyleadershipknows
