Birthday Franklin D. Roosevelt

Born on this date, January 30, in 1882. 32d President of the United States.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945)

"If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands, they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free. If in other lands the eternal truths of the past are threatened by intolerance we must provide a safe place for their perpetuation."

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945):

"In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression—everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way—everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want—which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants—everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear—which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor—anywhere in the world."

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945):

"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."

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945):

"It is said that Napoleon lost the battle of Waterloo because he forgot his infantry—he staked too much upon the more spectacular but less substantial calvary. The present administration in Washington provides a close parallel. It has either forgotten or it does not want to remember the infantry of our economic army. These unhappy times call for the building of plans that rest upon the forgotten, the unorganized but the indispensable units of economic power, for plans like those of 1917 that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid."

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945):
"They realize that in thirty-four months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a people’s Government this power is wholesome and proper. But in the hands of political puppets of an economic autocracy such power would provide shackles for the liberties of the people."

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945):

"We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions—bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities. Whoever seeks to set one race against another seeks to enslave all races. Whoever seeks to set one religion against another, seeks to destroy all religion."

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945):

"And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars."

ATTRIBUTION: President FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, campaign speech, Boston, Massachusetts, October 30, 1940.—The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940, p. 517 (1941).

Which president had a torrid affair with the first lady's personal secretary?

Happy Birthday! Without you, the "Eugenics" movement would have been still born in the US. You, FDR, were one of it's biggest supporters! Along with several of your Liberal buddies. (See History) Thank God for the conservative religious right... they were against it. (Though for the wrong reasons. See History)

Originally posted by StarValleyWy
Happy Birthday! Without you, the "Eugenics" movement would have been still born in the US. You, FDR, were one of it's biggest supporters! Along with several of your Liberal buddies. (See History) Thank God for the conservative religious right... they were against it. (Though for the wrong reasons. See History)

Originally posted by ivanhoe
SVW: "Without you, the "Eugenics" movement would have been still born in the US. You, FDR, were one of it's biggest supporters! Along with several of your Liberal buddies. (See History)"

Can you tell me more about this issue ?

You write "see History" were can I find this "History"?

Originally posted by StarValleyWy
The writings of Paul Berman. He is an impeccable source as he is what I call a "new age liberal". He sees the evil of totallitarianism and the part that the left held in it. He denounces that and still is able to remain liberal. Much like our own RHP "Kirksey". 🙂

Originally posted by kirksey957
Uh? Say what? I'm a little lost on this one, but thank you for remembering me.....I guess.

Originally posted by StarValleyWy
After concidering and reading and listening for a Year! ( Trumpets Blow) I do hereby say that you are the most reasonable of us all.