FDR on politics

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

FDR on banking influence on government

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the United States since the days of Andrew Jackson.

~ President Franklin Roosevelt, November 21, 1933

FDR on entry into World War II

I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt, shortly before the election of 1940

Franklin D. Roosevelt on free enterprise

A program whose basic thesis is, not that the system of free enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that it has not yet been tried.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt