We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would
rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Letter to Viscount Halifax, June 19,
1941
rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Letter to Viscount Halifax, June 19,
1941
Related:
- Klingon: "Better to live on our feet than to die at our knees!" -- "STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8
- We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our
youth for the future.
-- Franklin Delano Roosevel... - We can see now that we Americans were caught unprepared, because
we were ordinary human beings, following the best advice we had at
the time.
No one would have guessed in 1941 that we would be attacked in such an unsportsmanlike manner as we were.... - It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
- The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those
who have much
it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.... - We must reform if we would conserve. -- Franklin Delano Roosevel
- We cannot be free men if this is, by our national crisis,
to be a land of slavery.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. -- -Abraham Lincol... - Our country is still young and its potential is still enormous.
We should remember, as we look toward the future, that the more fully we believe in and achieve freedom and equal opportunity -- not simply for ourselves but for others -- the greater our accomplishments as a nation will be.... - The more we condemn unadulterated Marxian Socialism, the stouter
should be our insistence on thorough-going social reforms.
-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)...
