“I am perhaps being a bit facetious but if some of my good Baptist brethren in Georgia had done a little preaching from the pulpit against the K.K.K. in the ’20s, I would have a little more genuine American respect for their Christianity!”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“Now comes this Russian diversion. If it is more than just that it will mean the liberation of Europe from Nazi domination–and at the same time I do not think we need to worry about the possibility of any Russian domination.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“I am neither bitter nor cynical–but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“What worries me, especially, is that public opinion over here is patting itself on the back every morning and thanking God for the Atlantic Ocean (and the Pacific Ocean). We greatly underestimate the serious implications to our own future…. Things move with such terrific speed these days, that it is really essential to us to think in broader terms and, in effect, to warn the American people that they, too, should think of possible ultimate results in Europe and the Far East.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“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. Roosevelt
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“Chamberlain’s visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to me like an inevitable conflict within the next five years.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“No human being can tell what the Russians are going to do next, and I think the Japanese actions will depend much on what Russia decides to do both in Europe and the Far East–especially in Europe.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“[D]rilling and arming, when carried on on a national scale, excite whole populations to frenzies which end in war.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“I’ve fired my last shot. I think I should have another round in my belt.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“I make this direct statement to the American people that there is far less chance of the United States getting into war, if we do all we can now to support the nations defending themselves against attack by the Axis than if we acquiesce in their defeat, submit tamely to an Axis victory, and wait our turn to be the object of attack in another war later on.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“A point has been reached where the peoples of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill-will, of marked trends toward aggression, of increasing armaments, of shortening tempers–a situation which has in it many of the elements that lead to the tragedy of general war…. Peace is threatened by those who seek selfish power.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“[W]e must remember that so long as war exists on earth there will be some danger that even the Nation that most ardently desires peace may be drawn into war.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“The chief problem is, of course, whether the marching of the general spirit of things is heading consciously or sub- consciously toward an idea of extension of boundaries.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. Yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between Governments. The once powerful malignant Nazi state is crumbling; the Japanese warlords are receiving in their homelands the retribution for which they asked when they attacked Pearl Harbor. But the mere conquest of our enemies is not enough; we must go on to do all in our power to conquer the doubts and the fears, the ignorance and the greed, which made this horror possible.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“On this tenth day of June, nineteen hundred and forty, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor…. In our unity, in our American unity we will pursue two obvious and simultaneous courses; we will extend to the opponents of force the material resources of this nation, and at the same time we will harness and speed up the use of those resources in order that we ourselves in the Americas may have equipment and training equal to the task of any emergency and every defense.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“This nation will remain a neutral nation, but I cannot ask that every American remain neutral in thought as well. Even a neutral has a right to take account of facts, even a neutral cannot be asked to close his mind or close his conscience. I have said not once but many times that I have seen war and that I hate war; I say that again and again. I hope the United States will keep out of this war, I believe that it will. And I give you assurance and reassurance that every effort of your government will be directed toward that end. As long as it remains within my power to prevent there will be no blackout of peace in the United States.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“Yesterday, December 7, 1941Ma date that will live in infamy–the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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