Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 249 |
| AUTHOR: | Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) |
| QUOTATION: | I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country; several of the best friends I have got are Communists. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | President “The quote is exceedingly dubious; it is most unlikely that FDR would have said anything like it, even flippantly, to the zealous HUAC chairman, though he may have told Dies that he was exaggerating the size of the American communist movement.”—Paul F. Boller, Jr., Quotemanship: The Use and Abuse of Quotations for Polemical and Other Purposes, chapter 8, p. 361 (1967). |
| SUBJECTS: | Communism |