Franklin D. Roosevelt quotes - page 9

The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation. View quote
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We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings. View quote
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We are committed to the proposition that principles of morality and considerations for our own security will never permit us to acquiesce in a peace dictated by aggressors and sponsored by appeasers. We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom. View quote
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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else. View quote
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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that is have free and independent labor unions. View quote
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A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it. View quote
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Taxes, are the dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society. View quote
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We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace; that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of nations far away. ... We have learned to be citizens of the world, members of the human community. View quote
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This morning I came, I saw, and I was conquered, as everyone would be who sees for the first time this great feat of mankind... Ten years ago the place where we gathered was an unpeopled, forbidding desert. In the bottom of the gloomy canyon whose precipitous walls rose to height of more than a thousand feet, flowed a turbulent, dangerous river... The site of Boulder City was a cactus-covered waste. And the transformation wrought here in these years is a twentieth century marvel. View quote
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The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit. It is inimical to the dictates of sound policy. It is in violation of the traditions of America. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
For too many of us the political equality we once had won was meaningless in the face of economic inequality. A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people's property, other people's money, other people's labor - other people's lives. For too many of us life was no longer free; liberty no longer real; men could no longer follow the pursuit of happiness. View quote
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It is another conflict, a conflict as fundamental as Lincoln's, fought not with glint of steel, but with appeals to reason and justice on a thousand fronts - seeking to save for our common country opportunity and security for citizens in a free society. We are near to winning this battle. In its winning and through the years may we live by the wisdom and the humanity of the heart of Abraham Lincoln. View quote
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Without the body and the mind, as all men know, the Nation could not live. But if the spirit of America were killed, even though the Nation's body and mind, constricted in an alien world, lived on, the America we know would have perished. View quote
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As Nicaraguan might say, he's a sonofabitch but he's ours. View quote
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The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group. View quote
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People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about. View quote
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later. View quote
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Calm seas never made a good sailor. View quote
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In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice..., the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man. View quote
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Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people. View quote
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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees. View quote
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The whole world is one neighborhood. View quote
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That, in its essence, is Fascism - ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. View quote
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