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1882–1945
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (30 January 1882 – 12 April 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the president of the United States, from 1933, to 1945. A Democrat, he won a record four presidential elections and dominated his party for many years as a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war.
Also known as: F.D. Roosevelt, Franklin D Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, Address Announcing the Second New Deal
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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
The true conservative seeks to protect the system of private property and free enterprise by correcting such injustices and inequalities as arise from it.
Address at the Democratic State Convention, Syracuse, New York (1936)
No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.
Address at Madison Square Garden (1936)
In the face of great perils never before encountered, our strong purpose is to protect and to perpetuate the integrity of democracy.
Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.
Address at Madison Square Garden (1936)
There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
Speech to the Democratic National Convention (1936)
I don't want to see a single war millionaire created in the United States as a result of this world disaster.
Wise and prudent men — intelligent conservatives — have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time.
Address at the Democratic State Convention, Syracuse, New York (1936)
Necessitous men are not free men. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
Among us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing.
There can be little doubt that in many ways the story of bridge building is the story of civilisation. By it we can readily measure an important part of a people’s progress.
I hope your committee will not permit doubts as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation.
That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation.
I cannot tell you when or where the United Nations are going to strike next in Europe. But we are going to strike — and strike hard.
State of the Union Address (1943)
If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free.
The smaller corporations should not carry burdens beyond their powers; the vast concentrations of capital should be ready to carry burdens commensurate with their powers and their advantages.
Message to Congress on tax revision (1935)
Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.
World peace is not a party question. [...] The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man, or one party, or one Nation.
I thank Your Majesty for your friendly message which comes at a time when all free peoples are deeply impressed by the courage and steadfastness of the Greek nation.
It is a plan to abolish all existing religions — Catholic, Protestant, Mohammedan, Hindu, Buddhist, and Jewish alike.
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Address at San Diego Exposition (1935, speech) · 5 Message to Congress on tax revision (1935) · 2 State of the Union address (1935, speech) · 5 Address at Chautauqua, New York (1936, speech) · 2 Address at Madison Square Garden (1936, speech) · 3 Address at the Democratic State Convention, Syracuse, New York (1936, speech) · 7 Speech to the Democratic National Convention (1936, speech) · 3 Message to Congress on establishing minimum wages and maximum hours (1937) · 1 Quarantine Speech (1937, speech) · 3 Address at the dedication of the memorial on the Gettysburg battlefield (1938, speech) · 2 Fireside Chat in the night before signing the Fair Labor Standards Act (1938) · 7 Remark at the time of his first inauguration as quoted in The 168 days (1938) · 1 Address to the Governing Board of the Pan American Union (1939, speech) · 1 Response to the attack on Pearl Harbor (1941) · 2 State of the Union Address — The Four Freedoms (1941, speech) · 3 History of American Political Thought (1943) · 1 State of the Union Address (1943, speech) · 2 State of the Union Address — Second Bill of Rights (1944, speech) · 8 Fourth inaugural address (1945, speech) · 4 The Roosevelt I Knew (1946) · 1