FDR Quotes

Various speechs/texts ^ | 03-24-05 | death2tyrants

[death2tyrants]

Here are some quotes I like from FDR. But when Bush makes similar assertions, he is a 'stupid-neocon-religious right-wing-wack-job-imperialist-ect...'. It's interesting comparing these to the typical sound bytes of the modern day democratic party. What a joke the democratic party has become...

"Today, thinking of our children and of their children, we oppose enforced isolation for ourselves or for any other part of the Americas."

"We must always be wary of those who with sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal preach the "ism" of appeasement."

"By an impressive expression of the public will and without regard to partisanship, we are committed to the proposition that principles of morality and considerations for our own security will never permit us to acquiesce in a peace dictated by aggressors and sponsored by appeasers. We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom."

"This nation has placed its destiny in the hands and heads and hearts of its millions of free men and women; and its faith in freedom under the guidance of God. Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose."

"We do not retreat. We are not content to stand still. As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God."

"The Government of the United States can today advance those ideals of Christianity which of late seem so often to have been obscured."

[SE Mom]

Thanks for posting this.

[Thebaddog]

FDR once sent a warship back to retrieve his dog, Fallah. And when questioned, he made light of it at the expense of the Republican that would dare question him.

IMHO, FDR was a demagogue of the first order. Words were just a tool to him.

[Jaysun]

In spite of what he may have said, FDR was a tyrannical nut. He was the most destructive president we've ever had.

[speedy]

Concur. FDR had no regard for the Constitution and was the most blatant Class Warrior we've ever had as President. Although I do think LBJ gives him a run for the money as most destructive.

[infidel29]

He was also a socialist of the first order. I was looking for a quote, I believe it was from Brezhnev about how "The New Deal" was a big step toward communism. I found these instead.

"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas." gun control? democrats?

"Death solves all problems - no man, no problem." Terri Schindler?

"Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party." democrats?

"The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do."

Clinton? Kennedy? Reid? Boxer?

How many are poignant concerning issues today? This is Joseph Stalin.

[wagglebee]

BTTT!

[2nd_Amendment_Defender]

I curse the name of Franklin D. Roosevelt everytime I look at my Social Security card and the taxes they take out of my check.

He was socialist or a communist. He also helped get rid of gold and silver that backed the American dollar. Now the dollar isn't backed by anything and it won't be worth the paper it's printed on if our Congress can't learn any fiscal restraint.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

IMHO, FDR was a demagogue of the first order.

That he was, I've listened to some of his press conferences that you can download and he basically said whatever he felt like saying regardless of facts.

[whatshisname]

You're right about that. If it's one thing LBJ ought to be excoriated for is giving those darkies their voting rights. Really, Dude. Class Warrior? How can you possibly claim that raising blacks from disenfranchised second-class citizens to having a voice in the political process is being a Class Warrior? Sounds to me like you're just upset because you miss the good ol' days when the white man ruled everything. Or did I miss your point?

[Jibaholic]

Worst. President. Ever.

[Jibaholic]

How can you possibly claim that raising blacks from disenfranchised second-class citizens to having a voice in the political process is being a Class Warrior?

This is probably a troll, but go do your homework on effect of AFDC (aka "welfare") on the effect of out-of-wedlock childbirths. Then go do some homework on the effect of out-of-wedlock childbirths on poverty rates. Great Society has been a trajic failure, none more so than for blacks. But he was still better than FDR.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

It seems like everyone is agreed that FDR was a scumbag.

Now Bush is saying things similar to FDR.

FDR used WWII to create a command economy which rescued him from the Depression and made homogenizing and bureaucratizing our society much easier.

What is Bush doing with his continuing Imperial exploits?

[tacticalogic]

"At Harvard, Roosevelt's most vivid moment involved a brief encounter with the poor. Hurrying to South Station in Boston for a train to New York and a social weekend there, he carried his heavy suitcase aboard a streetcar. A wheel of the streetcar broke a few blocks from the station, so Roosevelt jumped out and started running, only to crash his suitcase into a small Italian boy. The child's mother leaned out of a tenement window and started yelling, so Roosevelt took from his pocket a new dollar bill and waved it in front of the boy; money, in Roosevelt's experience, always garnered a respectful response."

Franklin D. Roosevelt: How his New Deal undermined charity

[death2tyrants]

Your welcome. :-) I'm glad someone got the indended point. The rest appear to believe, for some reason, that this post was an unconditional praise of FDR's domestic policies,lol.

[death2tyrants]

"Worst. President. Ever."

I'll call you on that and raise you a Jimmy Carter.

[tacticalogic]

The rest appear to believe, for some reason, that this post was an unconditional praise of FDR's domestic policies,lol.

I think at least some of it is presented to provide contrast to demonstrate the man's absolute lack of veracity.

[tacticalogic]

I'll call you on that and raise you a Jimmy Carter.

I'll take some of that, and put the cumulative damage of the New Deal and systematic abuse of the Commerce Clause up against anything Carter was able to screw up any day.

[Jibaholic]

Carter got the marginal tax rate raised to 70%.
FDR got the marginal tax rate raised to 94%.

But that is the least of it. Add in the massive expansion of the scope of the federal government, the creation of entitlements such as social security that still haunt us 70 years later, adding 6 new justices to the supreme court which ushered in today's era of judicial tyranny, and it is not even close. Jimmy Carter is pea shooter, FDR is a nuke.

[sasportas]

And don't forget the Tehran Conference at the end of WW2, Roosevelt, his pal Stalin, and Churchill.

Churchill was opposed to giving Stalin what he wanted. Roosevelt and Stalin carved up Europe. Roosevelt was an accomplis in a horrendous crime against the peoples of Eastern Europe, condemning to Communist slavery for 40 years.