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Franklin D. Roosevelt

US President, UN founder

1882 – 1945

165
Total Mentions
3
Direct Quotes
1946
First Mention
2023
Latest Mention

Most Frequent Citing Countries

USA(8)Panama(8)El Salvador(6)Cuba(6)Colombia(6)Belarus(5)Netherlands(4)Dominica(4)

Direct Quotations (3)

"The work, my friends, is peace"

2015Ghana
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"History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful Governments, but out of weak and helpless ones"

2013Belarus
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"I am horrified at the thought that we might give atomic weapons to West Germany. We created her economically, and 80 per cent of the officials there are former Nazis."

1962Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
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All Mentions (97)

1997·Italy
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Almost 55 years ago, on November 13 1942, President Roosevelt said that the future of the United Nations association “should not be restricted to the 28 signatories of the Atlantic Charter, but should be one whi
2023·Australia
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rsal Declaration — people like Bertha Lutz of Brazil. P.C. Chang of China. Minerva Bernardino of the Dominican Republic. H.J. Mehta of India. Eleanor Roosevelt of the United States and Jessie Street of Australia — were all seized of this simple fact: human rights apply equally to all people, no matter who yo
2023·Monaco
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th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. I would like to pay tribute here to the passionate commitment of Eleanor Roosevelt, who played a decisive role in the drafting of that historic document aimed at ensuring that every human being, anywhere, can enjoy their inalienable
2023·Poland
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ond World War. At the time, they pondered how to avoid similar tragedies in the future. The leaders of the United States and Great Britain. President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill, and soon the other countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, including Poland, signed the Atlantic Charter. It contained
2022·Belarus
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Likewise, they could have drawn inspiration from the model of cooperation established during the Second World War by the “Big Three” — Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill — who forged arrangements that significantly narrowed opportunities for great Powers to wage wars against each other. Nonetheless, unf
2020·Dominican Republic
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st of ourselves as we have tried to do for 75 years. The UN, as I understand it, is not concerned with diplomacy, but with the future and, as Eleanor Roosevelt said on the day of the solemn proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, “the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of yo
2019·Commonwealth of Dominica
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by the category 5 Hurricane Maria in September 2017. Two years ago, when Dominica lay in ruins after being ravaged by Maria, our Prime Minister, Mr. Roosevelt Skerrit, stood at this rostrum a mere five days later to address the Assembly and indicated his resolve to set Dominica on a path to becoming the fir
2019·Saint Kitts and Nevis
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of the existential vulnerabilities that we suffer in the face of this growing threat. Two years ago my colleague the Prime Minister of Dominica, Mr. Roosevelt Skerrit, was at this rostrum (see A/72/PV.19), dispirited but dignified. He had come straight from the front line of the devastation that had been wr
2019·Antigua and Barbuda
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refugees. In this Hall, in the presence of high representatives of the world’s peoples, I invoke the words of United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt who said, at a time of crisis, in 1933: “In the field of world policy, I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbour, the neighbou
2018·Bosnia and Herzegovina
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and prosperity to its own people while ignoring what goes on beyond its national borders, in its neighbourhood and in the wider world. To paraphrase Franklin Roosevelt, the structure for meeting any of the numerous challenges we face, including building and sustaining world peace, cannot be the work of one man or on
2018·Dominica
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y grateful to all of them for standing with us in our darkest hour. I thank them all. A few days after the passage of Hurricane Maria, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit of Dominica stood before this body and sounded a call for action (see A/72/ PV.19).
2018·Liechtenstein
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een the State and the human person, individually and collectively. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights began that inspiring trajectory. Eleanor Roosevelt, one of my personal role models, made a decisive contribution to its conclusion. Seventy years later, there can be no question that every individual
2017·Czech Republic
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must be based on historical optimism and the belief that we shall overcome someday. In Barcelona, Spanish people said that they were not afraid, and Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed the need to live free from fear. That is why I should like to quote a sentence from Martin Luther that I believe most beautifully expresse
2017·Venezuela
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The Prime Ministers of Antigua and Barbuda, Gaston Browne, and of Dominica, Roosevelt Skerrit, made two extraordinary statements to the General Assembly in which they bravely and emotionally expressed the most absolute truths and alert
2017·Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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President Theodore Roosevelt’s realpolitik adage of speaking softly while carrying a big stick — whatever its limitations — cannot be replaced by irresponsible, bellicose sabre-r
2017·Netherlands
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ecades. But the destruction caused by two world wars united the nations of the world in a shared belief that it should never happen again.Franklin D. Roosevelt put it this way in February 1945: “The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and of danger. The world will either move towards unity
2016·Dominica
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lso taking effective steps at the national level to improve its ability to respond and deliver in post-disaster situations. This year, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit outlined a proposal to establish a national vulnerability risk and resilience fund. The fund aims to ensure that the Government has immediate
2016·United Kingdom
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ive with little or no chance of escape. From the Declaration of St. James’s Palace and the Atlantic Charter forged by Winston Churchill and President Roosevelt to the first meeting of the General Assembly in London in 1946, the United Kingdom has always been an outward-looking, global partner at the heart of
2014·United States
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are or where you come from or what you look like or what God you pray to or whom you love, there is something fundamental that we all share. Eleanor Roosevelt, a champion of the United Nations and America’s role in it, once asked, “Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to
2014·Dominica
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eneral, and the attainment of the MDGs in particular, have been realized through the strong, visionary and compassionate leadership of Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit and his Cabinet, complemented by our hard- working citizens and the kind cooperation of our development partners. Our partnerships with the E
2013·Netherlands
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Universal Declaration is an enduring source of inspiration. It was adopted without a single dissenting vote under the inspired leadership of Eleanor Roosevelt, who acted as a change agent before the expression was coined. Just before the vote she said, “We stand today at the threshold of a great event both
2013·Spain
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olution 68/3), which took place just a few days ago. I am proud to say that in recognition of that commitment, Spain has been awarded the Franklin D. Roosevelt International Disability Rights Award, which Her Majesty Queen Sofia accepted a few days ago in this very city. We will also continue to support the
2011·Canada
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key objectives of Canadian foreign policy. The long history of humankind has proved that religious freedom and democratic freedom are inseparable. As Franklin Roosevelt observed on the eve of global war, “[w]here freedom of religion has been attacked, the attack has come from sources opposed to democracy. Where democ
2011·USA
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f sovereign States that would seek to prevent conflict while also addressing its causes. No American did more to pursue that objective than President Franklin Roosevelt. He knew that a victory in war was not enough. As he said at one of the very first meetings on the founding of the United Nations, “We have got to ma
2009·USA
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s yet to be met by the measure of our actions. This body was founded on the belief that the nations of the world could solve their problems together. Franklin Roosevelt, who died before he could see his vision for this institution become a reality, put it this way: “The structure of world peace cannot be the work of
2009·Israel
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or is morally hanged, drawn and quartered, and given an unfair trial to boot. By these twisted standards, the Human Rights Council would have dragged Roosevelt and Churchill to the dock as war criminals. What a perversion of truth! What a perversion of justice! The delegates to the United Nations and the Gov
2009·Nauru
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rogress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little”. President Roosevelt passed away before the inaugural session of the General Assembly, but those of us here today have the responsibility to see that his spirit lives on.
2008·Netherlands
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s all over the world. One man who forcefully reminded us that we are responsible for the opportunities open to future generations was Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In early 1941, in the darkest hour of the Second World War, he gave us his vision of the future: the dawning of a world in which people would enjoy
2008·Saint Kitts and Nevis
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in order to build a safer environment for ourselves and our future generations. Our destinies and our freedoms are all interwoven. It was Franklin D. Roosevelt who said that “true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence”. As Saint Kitts and Nevis commemorates its silver-jub
2008·Bahamas
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advances. As we celebrate the Declaration’s sixtieth anniversary, I recall the vision of a former First Lady of the United States of America, Eleanor Roosevelt, as expressed in her address on 8 March 1960: “We are going to have to work for a peaceful world continuously, without stopping because differences e
2008·Iceland
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lable to developing States, and Iceland is proud to host the Geothermal Training Programme of the United Nations University. Sixty years ago, Eleanor Roosevelt wisely observed that “The Charter of the United Nations is a guiding beacon along the way to the achievement of human rights and fundamental freedoms
2007·Slovenia
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venian contribution to raising awareness about the need for peaceful coexistence among those with different cultures and world views. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, one of the chief architects of the United Nations, predicted at the time of the establishment of the Organization that change would be a regular fea
2006·Swistzerland
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We recently celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Albert Einstein. He recommended the construction of the atomic bomb to President Roosevelt, yet always described himself as a militant pacifist. He shared his qualms of conscience with Sigmund Freud. In the course of their correspondence, t
2005·Dominica
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the adverse effects of such disasters on our population. My delegation once again reiterates the appeal made last year in this Hall by Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit for the creation of a global insurance fund to assist countries devastated by natural disasters. We call on the international community to fu
2005·Armenia
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ocus is on global security, and we all clearly understand and see that the path to security passes through development, then we should recall Eleanor Roosevelt, who 60 years ago, working on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, stated that men in need were not free. Indeed, only with the realization of
2004·Cuba
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early 60 years. It languishes, it gasps for air, it keeps up appearances, but it does not work. Who handcuffed the United Nations, named by President Roosevelt? President Bush. Second, United States troops will have to be withdrawn from Iraq. Now that the lives of over 1,000 American youths have been useless
2004·Djibouti
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orld together to reconcile differences and eliminate reasons for misunderstanding. The words and thoughts of the late American President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, are relevant here. For him, security meant not only safety from attack by outside aggressors, but also economic, social and moral security. As he sa
2004·Brazil
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r reach? A neglectful civilization is condemned to wither like a body without a soul. The exhortations from the great New Deal leader Franklin Delano Roosevelt still resonate with inescapable pertinence. What is needed today is “bold, persistent experimentation”. “The only thing we need to fear is fear itsel
2003·Sri Lanka
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by the Allied Powers to address challenges to peace and security and to development and democracy in the aftermath of the Second World War. President Roosevelt, in his 1943 Christmas Eve radio talk, said that as long as Britain, Russia, China and the United States stuck together in determination to keep the
2003·Micronesia
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ers in the United Nations system to reach our collective goals. In closing, I would like to refer to the words of the American President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, who once said, If I were asked to state the great objective which church and state are both demanding for the sake of every man and woman and child
2003·Palau
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the people and the Government of the Republic of Palau. Nearly 60 years ago, in his final inaugural address, United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt reflected on the lessons of the first half of the twentieth century. He said: “We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace; that our own well
2002·Federated States of Micronesia
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cognize the international implications of their inaction. I call upon those nations to remember the wise words of United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who said that `liberty does not permit an individual citizen or group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature in such a way as to h
2002·Lithuania
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d starting point for all of us, irrespective of our cultural diversity or fundamental differences of history and geography. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who devoted much time to the planning of this multilateral institution known as the United Nations, once said, “We have learned that we cannot live
2001·Canada
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r papers and press forward our resolutions in this great Hall, let us also remember that the words “United Nations” — coined by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942 — not only refer to an Organization or a name on a building, but were first and foremost a declaration of solidarity and of a common vision f
1999·Federated States of Micronesia
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y that time, leaders would be expressing regret over a steadily growing list of climate-related disasters and watching the pile of sandbags along the FDR Drive outside as the tidal surges along the East River grow stronger. By that time, of course, most island nations in the Forum would have disappeare
1998·USA
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It is very, very important that we do this together. Eleanor Roosevelt was one of the authors of the Universal Declaration. She said, in one of her many speeches in support of the United Nations when it was just beginnin
1998·Malta
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enever authoritarian regimes sought to erode democracy, human rights and the rule of law. Freedom first and foremost. That ideal buttressed President Roosevelt in his effort to give birth to the United Nations. As we strive to build a better world and struggle to conquer the uncertainties of our times, we th
1998·Costa Rica
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m has taken upon itself the obligation to abide by the purposes and principles of the San Francisco Charter. Under the vigorous leadership of Eleanor Roosevelt, the members of the Commission on Human Rights of the Economic and Social Council worked untiringly, freely and openly discussing the subject, and tr
1996·Bangladesh
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ate the science of human relationship — the ability of peoples of all kinds to live together and work together in the same world at peace.” President Roosevelt did not live to speak those words, which he wrote for what would have been his last address. His words are surely relevant even today.
1995·Ukraine
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ng tribute to the founders of the United Nations, Ukraine among them, our delegation would like to note the leading role of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt — one of the initiators of the creation of the universal Organization and the author of its very name — the United Nations. We are confident that the
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