Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Our national debt, after all, is an internal debt, owed not only by the nation but to the nation. If read more

Our national debt, after all, is an internal debt, owed not only by the nation but to the nation. If our children have to pay the interest they will pay that interest to themselves.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

A nation, like a person, has a mind--a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself, read more

A nation, like a person, has a mind--a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself, that understands the hopes and needs of its neighbors--all the other nations that live within the narrowing circle of the world.

I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will
never survive as a happy and fertile oasis read more

I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will
never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded
by a cruel desert of dictatorship.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than read more

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.