In the aftermath of WWI (or as it was known then, the Great War) and especially after the stock market crash of 1929 and the ensuing Great Depression, the American public was not interested in gett...

At the end of his first term in office, FDR attended a grand ceremony celebrating the opening of a bridge in Chicago. In typical fashion, he took the opportunity to give a speech about world events...

On the 29th of December, 1940, FDR gave one of his many radio addresses, in which he used the now famous phrase "arsenal of democracy," saying the United States would supply Britain with whatever w...

This was the 1941 State of the Union Address, but is commonly known as, "The Four Freedoms Speech." In it, FDR laid out his vision for what the Allies stood for against Germany, Italy, and Japan. T...

FDR gave this speech on December 8th, 1941 in urgent response to the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Air Force. Maybe his most memorable phrase described the day of the attack, D...