“Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it.”
Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Lord, reform Thy world, beginning with me.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1941, Volume 10
“A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5
“There is no group in America that can withstand the force of an aroused public opinion.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1933, Volume 2
“You sometimes find something good in the lunatic fringe. In fact, we have got as part of our social and economic government today a whole lot of things which in my boyhood were considered lunatic fringe, and yet they are now part of everyday life.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945, Volume 13
“I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5
“Those of you who have been there [Haiti] know it is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. It has everything. It has everything above the ground, and everything under the ground.... It is an amazing place. I strongly recommend that whenever you get a chance, if you haven't been there, that you go to Haiti. I think it was a certain Queen of England who said that after her death "Calais" would be found written on her heart. When I die, I think that "Haiti" is going to be written on my heart.”
“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.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6
“If the Nation is living within its income, its credit is good. If, in some crises, it lives beyond its income for a year or two, it can usually borrow temporarily at reasonable rates. But if, like a spendthrift, it throws discretion to the winds, and is willing to make no sacrifice at all in spending; if it extends its taxing to the limit of the peoples power to pay and continues to pile up deficits, then it is on the road to bankruptcy.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1928-1932, Volume 1
“History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by democratic methods people get a government strong enough to protect them from fear and starvation, their democracy succeeds; but if they do not, they grow impatient. Therefore, the only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over its government.”
Source: Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944
“The first theory is that if we make the rich richer, somehow they will let a part of their prosperity trickle down to the rest of us. The second theory was the theory that if we make the average of mankind comfortable and secure, their prosperity will rise upward through the ranks.”
