PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT (1882-1945) WROTE:
"In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice...the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.”October 2, 1932
"Among American citizens, there should be no forgotten men and no forgotten races.”October 26, 1936
"I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.""The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”January 20, 1937
"I never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their trust."April 14, 1938
"We must scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil liberties of all our citizens, whatever their background. We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.”January 9, 1940
"Freedom of speech...Freedom of worship...Freedom from want...Freedom from fear.”January 6, 1941
"They [who] seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers...call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.”March 15, 1941
"We have faith that future generations will know here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war.” February 12, 1943
"More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.” Prepared for April 13, 1945 - died April 12, 1945