"Chamberlain's visit to Hitler today may bring..." - Quote by Franklin D Roosevelt
Chamberlain's visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to me likean inevitable conflict within the next five years.
More by Franklin D Roosevelt
“I call for effort, courage, sacrifice, devotion. Granting the love of freedom, all of these are possible. And the love of freedom is still fierce and steady in the nation today. June 10, 1940”
“Continued dependence on relief inducers a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber.”
“I have a terrific pain in the back of my head.”
More on Diplomacy
“I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or no diplomatic establishment”
“It is not always possible to have everything go as one likes. In working with allies, it sometimes happens that they develop opinions of their own”
“Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.”
More on History
“Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.”
“The story of Romulus and Remus being suckled by a wolf is not a meaningless fable. The founders of every State which has risen to eminence have drawn their nourishment and vigor from a similar wild source. It was because the children of the Empire were not suckled by the wolf that they were conquered and displaced by the children of the Northern forests who were.”
“There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography.”