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**WIST Quotations** @wist@my-place.social · 12h

WIST Quotations @wist@my-place.social

In dictatorships there can be no party divisions. For all men must think as they are told, speak as they are told, write as they are told, live — and die — as they are told. In those countries the Nation is not above the party, as with us; the party is above the Nation; the party is the Nation. Every common man and woman is forced to walk the straight and narrow path of the party line, not strictly speaking a party line, but rather a line drawn by the dictator himself, who owns the party.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Speech (1941-03-29), Jackson Day Radio Broadcast, U.S.S. Potomac

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**Jim Wald** @CitizenWald@historians.social · 3d

Jim Wald @CitizenWald@historians.social

The #Nazis went from calmly noting the death of #FDR to seeing it as an omen of miraculous delivery, echoing that of Russian Empress Elizabeth in 1762 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/historical-journal/article/abs/britain-prussia-russia-and-the-galitzin-letter-a-reassessment/8D3184A02EC139B13C6EB639BDF476B3

Even serious historians often erroneously speak of the death of Catherine the Great (r 1762-96) #WTF
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erroneously speaking of Catherine the Great
from: David Clay Large, Berlin

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**Jim Wald** @CitizenWald@historians.social · 3d

Jim Wald @CitizenWald@historians.social

13 April 1945: Post-Dispatch covers the unexpected death of #FDR

Although #Nazi #Germany initially responded with equanimity--"unlikely to affect war"--it soon came to see #FDR's death as a miraculous opportunity, as
@nytimes reported two days later. https://nyti.ms/1iCvlpF
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Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

DEATH UNLIKELY TO AFFECT WAR, AXIS CONCEDES.
Nazi and Jap Sources Hope for Easng of U. S. Effort, but Do Not Expect It. ....

DEATH A ‘MIRACLE' Screams at Roosevelt as ‘War Criminal'—People Fear Loss of His Restraint in Peace By GEORGE AXELSSON

STOCKHOLM, April 14—after having observed the customary period of noncommittal silence, waitIng for instructions from Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi press fired its guns today at Franklin D. Roosevelt, calling the late President a war criminal and his death divine Justice and a miracle of the same sort that allegedly saved Adolf ‘Hitler from the July coup attempt on his life.

"Now it has become more worth while than ever to resist the enemy at any price, militarily and politically, shout” such Nazi newspapers as the Berlin Nachtausgabe of Dr. Robert Ley's Angriff.

"The first semi-official Nazi reaction to Mr. Roosevelts death feigned complete _ indifference, holding that the President's demise was strictly America'a own business. In statements from other Berlin political quarters there was however, a tendency to recognize the late President Roosevelt as the great man he

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**Jim Wald** @CitizenWald@historians.social · 3d

Jim Wald @CitizenWald@historians.social

13 April 1945: St. Louia Post-Dispatch covers the unexpected death of President #Roosevelt

We must remind ourselves that, when #FDR died, Vice President Harry S. #Truman was a largely unknown quantity to the public. The paper included photo essays on Truman & the transition
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page of photos: As Death Changed Leadership of the Nation

Truman takes the oath of office;
images of mourning from around the country, including: soldiers on crutches mourn president, Gen. Marshall at the White House, Truman takes oath of office, FDR home at Warm Springs

page of photos: Harry S. Truman--Pictorial Biography

(from childhood to the White House)

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**Jim Wald** @CitizenWald@historians.social · 3d

Jim Wald @CitizenWald@historians.social

80 years ago

13 April 1945: Saint Louis Post-Dispatch covers the unexpected death of President Franklin Delano #Roosevelt the preceding day.

Mourning for #FDR in the US and Allied countries was widespread and profound.

Here, photo of a "Negro Prayer Service"
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"Negro Prayer Service for Roosevelt"

photo of Rev. John E. Nave at lectern addressing congregation of Washington Tabernacle Baptist Church

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**Nathaniel Gregory** @Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · 3d

Nathaniel Gregory @Faithslayer202@mastodon.social

They refuse to compute & understand the conditions that led up to the #FDR / #SocDem style of reform for prosperity & hegemony which was pushed by violent & non-violent class struggle many #Socialist, #Marxist, #Communist, #Anarchist protests like the #CoalWar for example.

That Era will not come back, no matter what #Progressive people who're tied to the #Democrats say, it will not come back.

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**Nathaniel Gregory** @Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · 3d

Nathaniel Gregory @Faithslayer202@mastodon.social

There's good reason not to trust #SocialDemocrats & #FDR fetishists who literally see us as the enemy, rightfully so, as we don't agree with your way which has failed ever since the late 1890's of electing better #Democrats.

Where has it gotten you? It got you your #Progressive #dems end up being careerists who #organize into Top-down fundraising orgs as every Democratic orgs with no membership rights nor duties as the #DemocraticParty isn't held accountable.

**WIST Quotations** @wist@my-place.social · Apr 9

Apr 9

WIST Quotations @wist@my-place.social

A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

The dictators cannot seem to realize that here in America our people can maintain two parties, and at the same time maintain an inviolate and indivisible Nation. The totalitarian mentality is too narrow to comprehend the greatness of a people who can be divided in party allegiance at election time, but remain united in devotion to their country and to the ideals of democracy at all times.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Speech (1941-03-29), Jackson Day Radio Broadcast, U.S.S. Potomac

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

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**Catherine Schmidt** @lillyfinch@mstdn.social · Mar 26

Mar 26

Catherine Schmidt @lillyfinch@mstdn.social

#ushistory #politics #fdr
Heather Cox Richardson Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire 147 young people were dead,
3/25/1911
Once in office, [Francis] Perkins was a driving force behind the administration’s massive investment in public works projects to get people back to work. She urged the government to spend $3.3 billion on schools, roads, housing, & post offices. Those projects employed more than a million people in 1934.
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/march-25-2025?r=ymxmu&utm_medium=ios

Letters from an American · Mar 26March 25, 2025By Heather Cox Richardson

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**RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist** @sfwrtr@eldritch.cafe · Mar 16 *

Mar 16 *

RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist @sfwrtr@eldritch.cafe

@IanDSmith

" ...the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power." - FDR, 1938

I'm printing this out. Great explainer. Very clear.

#boostingIsSharing

#writer #author #definition

**WIST Quotations** @wist@my-place.social · Mar 12

Mar 12

WIST Quotations @wist@my-place.social

A quotation from Frankln Roosevelt

   Perfectionism, no less than isolationism or imperialism or power politics, may obstruct the paths to international peace. Let us not forget that the retreat to isolationism a quarter of a century ago was started not by a direct attack against international cooperation but against the alleged imperfections of the peace.
   In our disillusionment after the last war we preferred international anarchy to international cooperation with Nations which did not see and think exactly as we did. We gave up the hope of gradually achieving a better peace because we had not the courage to fulfill our responsibilities in an admittedly imperfect world.
   We must not let that happen again, or we shall follow the same tragic road again — the road to a third world war.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Message (1945-01-06) to Congress, Annual Message (State of the Union)

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**jackhutton** @jackhutton@mstdn.social · Mar 5 *

Mar 5 *

jackhutton @jackhutton@mstdn.social

“Almighty God: [..] With Thy blessing, we shall prevail over the unholy forces of our enemy. Help us to conquer the apostles of greed and racial arrogancies. Lead us to the saving of our country, and with our sister Nations into a world unity that will spell a sure peace, a peace invulnerable to the scheming of unworthy men. And a peace that will let all men live in freedom, reaping the just rewards of their honest toil.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt, D-Day Prayer, June 6, 1944,
#FDR

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**jackhutton** @jackhutton@mstdn.social · Mar 5

Mar 5

jackhutton @jackhutton@mstdn.social

2. "Only total victory can reward the champions of tolerance, and decency, and freedom, and faith.”

Excerpt From
Awakening the Spirit of America
Paul M. Sparrow

#AwakeningTheSpiritOfAmerica #paulmsparrow #fdr

**jackhutton** @jackhutton@mstdn.social · Mar 2

Mar 2

jackhutton @jackhutton@mstdn.social

“When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt, September 11, 1941 radio address.

Awakening the Spirit of America
Paul M. Sparrow

#AwakeningTheSpiritOfAmerica #paulmsparrow #fdr

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**jackhutton** @jackhutton@mstdn.social · Mar 2

Mar 2

jackhutton @jackhutton@mstdn.social

“It is, therefore, proof—if any proof is needed—that our confidence in the future of democracy has not diminished in this Nation and will not diminish.” #FDR

**jackhutton** @jackhutton@mstdn.social · Mar 2

Mar 2

jackhutton @jackhutton@mstdn.social

"[A nation] must believe in the past. It must believe in the future. It must, above all, believe in the capacity of its own people so to learn from the past that they can gain in judgment in creating their own future.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt, June 30, 1941, Hyde Park

Awakening the Spirit of America
Paul M. Sparrow
#AwakeningTheSpiritOfAmerica #paulmsparrow #fdr #books #bookstodon

**jackhutton** @jackhutton@mstdn.social · Mar 1

Mar 1

jackhutton @jackhutton@mstdn.social

"never in the history of the world has a nation lost its democracy by a successful struggle to defend its democracy. We must not be defeated by the fear of the very danger which we are preparing to resist. Our freedom has shown its ability to survive war, but our freedom would never survive surrender. The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt, May 27, 1941

Awakening the Spirit of America
Paul M. Sparrow
#AwakeningTheSpiritOfAmerica #paulmsparrow #books #fdr

**Catherine Schmidt** @lillyfinch@mstdn.social · Feb 22

Feb 22

Catherine Schmidt @lillyfinch@mstdn.social

Meme dark blue background white text “We must be especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle to feather their own nest.” , FDR - 1941 #ALT

#oligarchy #politics #FDR

**דניאלה סולזמן** @daniellesatm@babka.social · Feb 18

Feb 18

דניאלה סולזמן @daniellesatm@babka.social

H.W. Brands’s new book, America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War, is essential reading as it sheds a new light on the isolationist vs. interventionist battle.

#Books #politics #WWII #WW2 #Jewish #Antisemitism #FDR

https://buttondown.com/DanielleSATM/archive/america-first-by-hw-brands/

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**Dark Photon Studio** @shanesemler@metalhead.club · Feb 18

Feb 18

Dark Photon Studio @shanesemler@metalhead.club

2/2 #Harris and the #Democrats were never going to fix this. At best, they would have slowed #Americas decline. Why? Because #neoliberal #capitalism eats itself. #Liberals are Neoliberals. It is a right-wing position, just a kinder, gentler capitalist philosophy (lol). And that’s why they would never fix what needs fixed. That’s why, even when the Dems were in power, they did very little to correct an unsustainable direction. America hasn’t had a real #leftwing movement since #FDR. The malaise of the #1970s should have been an indicator things weren’t working. Instead, the #US kicked the can down the road with #Reagan, and then #Clinton.

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