...Since 1775 the United States Marines have upheld a fine tradition of service to their country. They are doing so today. I am confident they will continue to do so.
Franklin D. RooseveltEternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.
Franklin D. RooseveltWe have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
Franklin D. RooseveltThe real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson...
Franklin D. RooseveltThe peoples of many countries are being taxed to the point of poverty and starvation in order to enable Governments to engage in a mad race in armament which, if permitted to continue, may well result in war. This grave menace to the peace of the world is due in no small measure to the uncontrolled activities of the manufacturers and merchants of engines of destruction, and it it must be met by the concerted actions of the peoples of all Nations.
Franklin D. Roosevelt