Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born JANUARY 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, NY.
Elected in 1933 as the 32nd President, he was in office longer then any other, over 12 years, serving during the Great Depression and World War II.
Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a radio greeting to the Boy Scouts, Feb. 7, 1938:
“ON THIS 28TH birthday of the Boy Scouts of America we should be especially thankful for a youth movement which seeks merely to preserve such simple fundamentals as physical strength, mental alertness and moral straightness.”
FDR addressed the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, Dec. 6, 1933:
“EARLY CHRISTIANS CHALLENGED the pagan ethics of Greece and of Rome;
We are wholly ready to challenge the pagan ethics…of our boasted modern civilization.”
On Oct. 6, 1935, FDR stated:
“WE CANNOT READ the history of our rise and development as a nation, without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic…
Where we have been the truest and most consistent in obeying its precepts, we have attained the greatest measure of contentment and prosperity.”
In a Fireside Chat, March 9, 1937, FDR stated:
“I HOPE THAT you have re-read the Constitution of the United States…Like the Bible, it ought to be read again and again.”
FDR stated at a Campaign event in Brooklyn, NY, Nov. 1, 1940:
“THOSE FORCES HATE democracy and Christianity as two phases of the same civilization.
They oppose democracy because it is Christian. They oppose Christianity because it preaches democracy.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt stated in his Labor Day Address, Sept. 1, 1941:
“PRESERVATION OF THESE rights is vitally important now, not only to us who enjoy them, but to the whole future of Christian civilization.”
FDR said at Madison Square Garden, Oct. 28, 1940:
“WE GUARD AGAINST the forces of anti-Christian aggression, which may attack us from without.”
FDR said in a Fireside Chat, April 28, 1942:
“THIS GREAT WAR effort must be carried through…It shall not be imperiled by the handful of noisy traitors – betrayers of America, betrayers of Christianity itself.”
FDR addressed Congress regarding the Yalta Conference, March 1, 1945:
“I HAD READ about Warsaw and Lidice and Rotterdam and Coventry – but I saw Sevastopol and Yalta! And I know that there is not room enough on earth for both German militarism and Christian decency.”
FDR remarked in his State of the Union, Jan. 6, 1942:
“THE WORLD IS too small…for both Hitler and God…
Nazis have now announced their plan for enforcing their…pagan religion all over the world – a plan by which the Holy Bible and the Cross of Mercy would be displaced by Mein Kampf and the swastika and the naked sword.”
FDR told the American Youth Congress, Feb. 10, 1940:
“I KNEW THAT some day Russia would return to religion for the simple reason that four or five thousand years of recorded history have proven that mankind has always believed in God in spite of the many abortive attempts to exile God.”
In a Radio Address, Nov. 4, 1940, FDR stated:
“DEMOCRACY IS THE birthright of every citizen, the white and the colored; the Protestant, the Catholic, the Jew.”
FDR stated at Madison Square Garden, Oct. 28, 1940:
“YOUR GOVERNMENT IS working…with representatives of Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish faiths. Without these three, all three of them…things would not be as..easy.”
FDR stated regarding Jewish Refugees, June 12, 1944:
“THIS NATION IS appalled by the systematic persecution of helpless minority groups by Nazis…The fury of their insane desire to wipe out the Jewish race in Europe continues undiminished…
Many Christian groups also are being murdered…Nazis are determined to complete their program of mass extermination.”
FDR stated regarding Justice for War Crimes, March 24, 1944
“IN ONE OF the blackest crimes of all history – begun by the Nazis…the wholesale systematic murder of the Jews of Europe…
Hundreds of thousands of Jews…are now threatened with annihilation as Hitler’s forces descend more heavily…
That these innocent people, who have already survived a decade of Hitler’s fury, should perish on the very eve of triumph over the barbarism which their persecution symbolizes, would be a major tragedy.”
FDR wrote to Rabbi Stephen Wise of the United Palestine Appeal, Feb. 6, 1937:
“THE AMERICAN PEOPLE…watched with sympathetic interest the effort of the Jews to renew in Palestine the ties of their ancient homeland and to reestablish Jewish culture in the place where for centuries it flourished and whence it was carried to the far corners of the world…
Two decades have witnessed…the vitality and vision of the Jewish pioneers in Palestine. It should be a source of pride to Jewish citizens of the United States that they, too, have had a share in this great work of revival.”
William J. Federer is a nationally known speaker, best-selling author, and president of Amerisearch, Inc., a publishing company dedicated to researching America’s noble heritage.
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