In the formative days of the Republic, the directing influence the Bible exercised upon the fathers of the Nation is conspicuously evident.
Franklin D. RooseveltThe United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
Franklin D. RooseveltIt is to the real advantage of every producer, every manufacturer and every merchant to cooperate in the improvement of working conditions, because the best customer of American industry is the well-paid worker.
Franklin D. RooseveltI'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
Franklin D. RooseveltI read in a newspaper that I was to be received with all the honors customarily rendered to a foreign ruler. I am grateful for the honors; but something within me rebelled at that word 'foreign'. I say this because when I have been in Canada, I have never heard a Canadian refer to an American as a 'foreigner'. He is just an 'American'. And, in the same way, in the United States, Canadians are not 'foreigners', they are 'Canadians'. That simple little distinction illustrates to me better than anything else the relationship between our two countries.
Franklin D. Roosevelt