Source: “Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Japan (1941),” in 100 Milestone Documents, an online library compiled by the “Our Documents” Initiative, a cooperative effort

Source: Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Inaugural Address,” January 20, 1937. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=15349. My fellow countrymen. When four years ago we met

Source: Samuel I. Rosenman, ed., Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Volume Two: The Year of Crisis, 1933 (New York: Random House, 1938), 11-16. I am certain that

I AM deeply sorry that I have had to forego the opportunity of accompanying my old friend, Senator Ryan Duffy, to Milwaukee to be with you tonight, as I had

MY FRIENDS: I think the American public and the American newspapers are certainly creatures of habit. This is one of the warmest evenings that I have ever felt in Washington,

Roosevelt, Franklin D., Master Speech File, 1898-1945, Box 11. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum. http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/collections/franklin/index.php?p=collections/findingaid&id=582&q=&rootcontentid=246681 The great warmth of your welcome reenforces the obvious fact that so far

MY FRIENDS OF THE YOUNG DEMOCRATIC CLUBS: I am speaking to you from Georgia Warm Springs Foundation for the victims of infantile paralysis, and I always feel that in this

Source: President Franklin Roosevelt’s Annual Message (Four Freedoms) to Congress (1941), in 100 Milestone Documents, an online library compiled by the “Our Documents” Initiative, a cooperative effort of the National