Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial

• 1st Term 1933 - 1936
• 2nd Term 1937 - 1940
• 3rd Term 1941 - 1944
• 4th Term 1945
• Died on April 12, 1945

I HAVE SEEN WAR

I have seen war on land and sea.
I have seen blood running from the wounded...
I have seen the dead in the mud.
I have seen cities destroyed...
I have seen children starving.
I have seen the agony of mothers and wives.

I HATE WAR.

We must scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil liberties of all citizens, whatever their background. We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.

Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the germs of another world war will remain as a constant threat to mankind. [IMG]

They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individualrulers... call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order. [IMG]

The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man, or one party, or one nation... it must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world.

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· National Park Service - FDR Memorial Page
· History of the United Nations

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