Fdr Quotes

I think there are good men and women in all decades. We`ve grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.

(Quoted by Ted Morgan in the book "FDR", Simon & Schuster, 1985) I made one great mistake in my life - when I signed the letter to (President Franklin Delano Roosevelt) recommending that atom bombs be made . . . but there was some justification - the danger that the Germans would make them.

FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men.

If FDR had lived, the cold war wouldn`t have developed the way it did, because Stalin would have tried to get along with Roosevelt.

FDR had failed in his effort to get America behind the war effort until Pearl Harbor, although he was convinced Hitler had to be confronted. What he thought was: `If Britain goes down, we`re next,`