Our security depends on the Allied Powers winning against aggressors. The Axis Powers intend to destroy democracy, it is anathema ...to them. We cannot provide that aid if the public are against it; therefore, it is our responsibility to persuade the public that aid to the victims of aggression is aid to American security. I expect the members of my administration to take every opportunity to speak to this issue wherever they are invited to address public forums in the weeks ahead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This nation will remain a neutral nation, but I cannot ask that every American remain neutral in thought as well. Even a neutral h...as 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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our policy is to give all possible material aid to the nations that still resist aggression across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.... And we make it abundantly clear that we intend to commit none of the fatal errors of appeasement. We have the thought that in this nation of many states we have found the way in which men of many racial origins may live together in peace. If the human race as a whole is to survive, the world must find a way by which men and nations may live together in peace. We cannot accept the doctrine that war must be forever a part of man's destiny.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There comes a time in the affairs of men when they must prepare to defend not their homes alone but the tenets of faith and humani...ty on which their churches, their governments and their very foundations are set. The defense of religion, of democracy and of good faith among nations is all the same fight. To save one, we must now make up our minds to save all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Freedom of the press is essential to the preservation of a democracy; but there is a difference between freedom and license. Edito...rialists who tell downright lies in order to advance their own agendas do more to discredit the press than all the censors in the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience... of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have ... I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I re...ceive them into a vivid mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »