“Unless there is security here at home there cannot be lasting peace in the world.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt, State of the Union Address, Second Bill of Rights (1944)

About Franklin D. Roosevelt

1882 – 1945

Thirty-second President of the United States, who led the country through the Great Depression and most of World War II.

“There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected.”

“Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.”

“This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly.”

“Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We can not learn men from books.”

“And hie him home, at evening's close, / To sweet repast and calm repose.”

“Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.”

“Why, what is weeping and sighing? A judgement. What is misfortune? A judgement.”

“For God made all mankind to be happy, to be serene.”

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”