Franklin Delano Roosevelt Berühmte Zitate
Original engl.: "no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country ... and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living." - Statement on the National Industrial Recovery Act, June 16, 1933. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/ODNIRAST.HTML
„Das Einzige, was wir zu fürchten haben, ist die Furcht selbst.“
Antrittsrede, 4. März 1933
Original engl.: "[..] the only thing we have to fear is fear itself [..]"
Zitate über Menschen von Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Zitiert in Sahra Wagenknecht, Freiheit statt Kapitalismus, Campus Verlag, Erweiterte Auflage 2012, S. 189
(Original engl.: "... the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself." - Message to Congress on Curbing Monopolies. April 29, 1938. The American Presidency Project http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=15637
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Zitate und Sprüche
Ansprache im Madison Square Garden, New York City, 31. Oktober 1936. Zitiert in einer Rede http://www.linksfraktion.de/reden/vom-organisierten-geld-regiert-werden-schlimm-wie-organisierten-verbrechen/ von Sahra Wagenknecht in der Bundestagsdebatte am 26.01.2012 über das Finanzmarktstabilisierungsgesetz
Original engl.: "We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." - Address at Madison Square Garden, New York City, October 31, 1936. The American Presidency Project http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=15219
„Ich werde Deutschland zermalmen“
Quelle: Wider Willkür und Machtrausch
von : Emanuel Reichenberger,
Verlag : Leopold Stocker, Graz und Göttingen, 1955
Quelle: 1941: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F. D. Roosevelt, 1939, Band 8, ISBN 9781623769680, Seite 556, Verlag Best Books on, Autor: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Zitate auf Englisch
Letter http://books.google.com/books?id=MyfeAwAAQBAJ&q=%22No+democracy+can+long+survive+which+does+not+accept+as+fundamental+to+its+very+existence+the+recognition+of+the+rights+of+its+minorities%22&pg=PA401#v=onepage to Walter Francis White, president of the NAACP (25 June 1938)
1930s
1930s, Address at San Diego Exposition (1935)
“We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.”
Fireside chat on national defense (May 26, 1940), reported in The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 (1941), p. 240
1940s
1930s, Speech to the Democratic National Convention (1936)
Address at Marietta, Ohio http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=15672 (8 July 1938)
1930s
1940s, Prayer on D-Day (1944)
Speech at the Citadel (23 October 1935)
1930s
1930s
Kontext: Forests require many years to mature; consequently the long point of view is necessary if the forests are to be maintained for the good of our country. He who would hold this long point of view must realize the need of subordinating immediate profits for the sake of the future public welfare. … A forest is not solely so many thousand board feet of lumber to be logged when market conditions make it profitable. It is an integral part of our natural land covering, and the most potent factor in maintaining Nature's delicate balance in the organic and inorganic worlds. In his struggle for selfish gain, man has often needlessly tipped the scales so that Nature's balance has been destroyed, and the public welfare has usually been on the short-weighted side. Such public necessities, therefore, must not be destroyed because there is profit for someone in their destruction. The preservation of the forests must be lifted above mere dollars and cents considerations. … The handling of our forests as a continuous, renewable resource means permanent employment and stability to our country life.
The forests are also needed for mitigating extreme climatic fluctuations, holding the soil on the slopes, retaining the moisture in the ground, and controlling the equable flow of water in our streams. The forests are the "lungs" of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. Truly, they make the country more livable.
There is a new awakening to the importance of the forests to the country, and if you foresters remain true to your ideals, the country may confidently trust its most precious heritage to your safe-keeping.
“If you treat people right they will treat you right — ninety percent of the time.”
As quoted in The Roosevelt I Knew (1946) by Frances Perkins, p. 5
Posthumous publications
Letter to Col. Edward Mandell House (21 November 1933); as quoted in F.D.R.: His Personal Letters, 1928-1945, edited by Elliott Roosevelt (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1950), pg. 373
1930s
“I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.”
Speech accepting the Democratic nomination for president, 1932 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois (2 July 1932)
1930s
Noting Italy's declaration of war against France on that day, during the commencement address at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville (June 10, 1940); reported in The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 (1941), p. 263
1940s
Presidential press conference (21 May 1940), in Complete presidential press conferences of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Volumes 15-16 (Da Capo Press, 1972)
1940s
“An American Government cannot permit Americans to starve.”
1930s, Address at San Diego Exposition (1935)
1930s, Quarantine Speech (1937)
1940s, Third inaugural address (1941)
1940s, Prayer on D-Day (1944)
“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.”
The earliest citation yet found does not attribute this to Roosevelt, but presents it as a piece of anonymous piece folk-wisdom: "When one reaches the end of his rope, he should tie a knot in it and hang on" ( LIFE magazine (3 April 1919), p. 585 http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89063018576?urlappend=%3Bseq=65).
Misattributed
Variante: When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Address to the National Education Association (30 June 1938)
1930s
1930s, Message to Congress on establishing minimum wages and maximum hours (1937)
“The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.”
Letter to all State Governors on a Uniform Soil Conservation Law (26 February 1937) http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=15373); this statement has sometimes been paraphrased and prefixed to an earlier FDR statement of 29 January 1935 to read: "A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people." Though it approximates 2 separate statements of FDR, no original document in precisely this form has been located.
1930s
“We must be the great arsenal of Democracy.”
Fireside Chat on National Security, Washington, D.C. (29 December 1940)
1940s
1940s, Response to the attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)
Speech at Madison Square Garden, October 28, 1940
1940s
Speech at the Dedication of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, September 2, 1940
1940s