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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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Let me warn you, and let me warn the nation, against the smooth evasion that says: "Of course we believe these things.
Address at the Democratic State Convention, Syracuse, New York (1936)
The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
Without question it starts us toward a better standard of living and increases purchasing power to buy the products of farm and factory.
Fireside Chat in the night before signing the Fair Labor Standards Act (1938)
That superiority has gone — forever.
State of the Union Address (1943)
Yesterday, December 7, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
Response to the attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)
To bring together the records of the past and to house them in buildings where they will be preserved for the use of men and women in the future, a Nation must believe in three things. It must believe in the past. It must believe in the future. It must, above all, believe in the capacity of its own people so to learn from the past that they can gain in judgment in creating their own future.
All free peoples are deeply impressed by the courage and steadfastness of the Greek nation.
We know it because democracy alone has constructed an unlimited civilization capable of infinite progress in the improvement of human life.
New laws, in themselves, do not bring a millennium; new laws do not pretend to prevent labor disputes, nor do they cover all industry and all labor.
Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.
Address at San Diego Exposition (1935)
Prophets of the downfall of American democracy have seen their dire predictions come to naught.
The Russian armies are killing more Axis personnel and destroying more Axis materiel than all the other 25 nations put together.
It is only the unthinking liberals in this world who see nothing but tragedy in the slowing up or temporary stopping of liberal progress.
My friends, judge me by the enemies I have made.
Any Government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that a continuation of that habit means the poorhouse.
We guard against the forces of anti-Christian aggression, which may attack us from without, and the forces of ignorance and fear which may corrupt us from within.
Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Those who cherish their freedom and recognize and respect the equal right of their neighbors to be free and live in peace must work together for the triumph of law and moral principles in order that peace, justice, and confidence may prevail in the world.
Quarantine Speech (1937)
The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it: If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
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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