"I have seen war...I hate war."
American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at in address at Chautauqua, NY - August 14, 1936
"The Soviet Union, as everybody who has the courage to face the fact knows, is run by a dictatorship as absolute as any other dictatorship in the world."
American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt before the American Youth Congress - February 10, 1940
"Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will...It is the most humane, the most advanced, and, in the end, the most unconquerable of all forms of human society. The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase of human history...We...would rather die on our feet than live on our knees."
United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in his Third Inauguration Speech, January 20, 1941
"I say that the delivery of needed supplies to Britain is imperative. I say that this can be done; it must be done; and it will be done...The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt during his Fireside Chat radio address, May 27, 1941
"The massed, angered forces of common humanity are on the march. They are going forward - on the Russian front, in the vast Pacific area, and into Europe - converging upon their ultimate objectives: Berlin and Tokyo. I think the first crack in the Axis has come. The criminal, corrupt Fascist regime in Italy is going to pieces."
American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in a Fireside Chat - July 28, 1943
"The world has never seen greater devotion, determination, and self-sacrifice than have been displayed by the Russian people...under the leadership of Marshal Joseph Stalin. With a nation that in saving itself is thereby helping to save all the world from the Nazi menace, this country of ours should always be glad to be a good neighbor and a sincere friend to the world of the future."
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt during a Fireside Chat - July 28, 1943
"On this tenth day of June 1940, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor"
United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"Force is the only language they understand, like bullies."
American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt speaking in reference to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and German dictator Adolph Hitler, date unknown.
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