These are bad days for all of us who remember always that when real world forces come into conflict, the final result is never as dark as we mortals guess it in very difficult days.
Franklin D. RooseveltAre you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
Franklin D. RooseveltThe driving force of a nation lies in its spiritual purpose, made effective by free, tolerant but unremitting national will.
Franklin D. RooseveltThe United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
Franklin D. RooseveltThe royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the government, but they have maintained that economic slavery was nobody's business. They granted that the government could protect the citizen in his right to vote, but they denied that the government could do anything to protect the citizen in his right to work and his right to live. Today we stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place.
Franklin D. Roosevelt