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
Speech at the People's Forum in Troy, New York http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/_resources/images/msf/msf00015 (March 3, 1912)
1910s
Part of this is often misquoted as "We have nothing to fear but fear itself," most notably by Martin Luther King, Jr. in his I've Been To The Mountaintop https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkivebeentothemountaintop.htm speech. Similar expressions were used in ancient times, for example by Seneca the Younger (Ep. Mor. 3.24.12 http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/sen/seneca.ep3.shtml): scies nihil esse in istis terribile nisi ipsum timorem ("You will understand that there is nothing dreadful in this except fear itself"), and by Michel de Montaigne: "The thing I fear most is fear", in Essays (1580), Book I, Ch. 17.
1930s, First Inaugural Address (1933)
“My friends, judge me by the enemies I have made.”
Speech made on the campaign trail in Portland, Oregon (21 September 1932)
1930s
“It seems to me that the dedication of a library is in itself an act of faith.”
Remarks at the Dedication of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park, New York, United States of America (June 30, 1941). Archived https://web.archive.org/web/20120531110501/http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/php63041.html from the original http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/php63041.html on January 30, 2021.
1940s
1940s, State of the Union Address — Second Bill of Rights (1944)
“The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;”
1940s, State of the Union Address — Second Bill of Rights (1944)
“I have a terrific pain in the back of my head.”
Last words spoken while having his portrait painted on April 12 1945 before losing consciousness and dying shortly after.
Disputed
