Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

All our security now depends on the wise decisions and cooperation of our leaders.

American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.

Much has changed since the end of the Cold War that augurs well for the survival of our nation.

The time has come to recognize that the U.S. will continue to exercise unprecedented power in a world where international rules are still unreliable and where security and advancing of the free democratic order still depend significantly on the possession and use of military might.

America's families will be safer in a world where we're strong, where we're engaged, but where we're respected.

The amount of military force necessary to provide reassurance depends on how dangerous people think the world is. And that I think ultimately depends upon the kinds of government that hold sway in major countries.

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions.

There is not much danger of the smaller nations if the big nations will behave.

Unilateral preemption should not in any way be the model for how we conduct international relations.

Our talks in Paris tackled economic, democratic, security and political issues; we talked on means for combating terrorism, in addition to latest regional and international developments of mutual interest, especially those in region.

You know, the country is basically peaceful.

I very much hope that the United States will finally... realise that they can no longer act as the prosecutor, the judge, and the executioner in every part of the world and that they need to cooperate to resolve issues.

Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.

The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.

Intervention continues to be a prominent dimension of the post-cold war world.

We cannot solve the problem of terrorism by asserting our will on the world.

We have to make sure that we are a force for peace and stability in the world, and that we're prepared to defend freedom and the security of the American people.

To Perpetual Peace

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.

The duty of defense is maintain peace and avoid war.

We have to rearrange in our minds what defense actually means. Does it mean you're going to try to protect the boundaries of a piece of land, or does it mean you're going to try to help the people on that piece of land to live a better life?

Multilateralism is the democracy of international society.

Without power, without a strong army and a strong navy, there can be no welfare for us .... The German nation will be either the hammer or the anvil.

When America is stronger, the world is safer.