Franklin Delano Roosevelt frasi celebri
Origine: Al Madison Square Garden, 1936; citato in Marcello De Cecco, Roberta Carlini, Alla radice della crisi, il manifesto, 5 dicembre 2008.
“Fai quello che puoi con quello che hai nel posto in cui sei.”
Origine: Citato nel programma televisivo Che tempo che fa, RaiTre, 8 gennaio 2011 e in Luciana Littizzetto, I dolori del giovane Walter, Mondadori, 2010.
Origine: Citato in Edward Klein, La maledizione dei Kennedy, Milano, Mondadori, 2007, p. 132. ISBN 978-88-04-53311-5
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Frasi e Citazioni
“Più che una fine della guerra, vogliamo una fine dei principi di tutte le guerre.”
Origine: Messaggio radiofonico alla nazione per il Jefferson Day, 13 aprile 1945.
Origine: Citato in Frances Perkins, The Roosevelt I Knew, Harper Colophon Books.
“In questo 10 giugno, la mano che teneva il pugnale l'ha affondato nella schiena del suo vicino.”
Origine: Commentando la dichiarazione di guerra dell'Italia contro Gran Bretagna e Francia, Washington 10 giugno 1940; citato in storiaxxisecolo.it http://www.storiaxxisecolo.it/secondaguerra/sgmcampagnafrancia.htm
Origine: Citato in Ennio Di Nolfo, Storia delle relazioni internazionali. [Dal 1918 ai giorni nostri], Editori Laterza, Roma, 2008, pag. 545. ISBN 978-88-420-8734-2
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Frasi in inglese
Speech at the People's Forum in Troy, New York http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/_resources/images/msf/msf00015 (March 3, 1912)
1910s
Part of this is often misquoted as "We have nothing to fear but fear itself," most notably by Martin Luther King, Jr. in his I've Been To The Mountaintop https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkivebeentothemountaintop.htm speech. Similar expressions were used in ancient times, for example by Seneca the Younger (Ep. Mor. 3.24.12 http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/sen/seneca.ep3.shtml): scies nihil esse in istis terribile nisi ipsum timorem ("You will understand that there is nothing dreadful in this except fear itself"), and by Michel de Montaigne: "The thing I fear most is fear", in Essays (1580), Book I, Ch. 17.
1930s, First Inaugural Address (1933)
“My friends, judge me by the enemies I have made.”
Speech made on the campaign trail in Portland, Oregon (21 September 1932)
1930s
“It seems to me that the dedication of a library is in itself an act of faith.”
Remarks at the Dedication of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park, New York, United States of America (June 30, 1941). Archived https://web.archive.org/web/20120531110501/http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/php63041.html from the original http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/php63041.html on January 30, 2021.
1940s
1940s, State of the Union Address — Second Bill of Rights (1944)
“The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;”
1940s, State of the Union Address — Second Bill of Rights (1944)
“I have a terrific pain in the back of my head.”
Last words spoken while having his portrait painted on April 12 1945 before losing consciousness and dying shortly after.
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