A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service, — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government . . . costs too much.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You are, I am sure, aware that genuine popular support in the United States is required to carry out any Government policy,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The function of Government must be to favor no small group at the expense of its duty to protect the rights of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob… [The organized moneyed people] are… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
They realize that in thirty-four months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a peoples Government… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A wise Government seeks to provide the opportunity through which the best of individual achievement can be obtained, while at the same… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
[M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It took six weeks of debate in the Senate to get the Arms Embargo Law repealed--and we face other delays during the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the government, but they have maintained that… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The peoples of many countries are being taxed to the point of poverty and starvation... to enable governments to engage in a… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
This law represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means completed--a structure intended to lessen… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“From the end of the World War twenty-one years ago, this country, like many others, went through a phase of having large… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“All agree that, the first responsibility for the alleviation of poverty and distress and for the care of the victims of the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
That, in essence is Fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any controlling private power. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No business is above Government; and Government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above Government. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When a country is at war we want Congressmen, regardless of party, to back up the government of the United States. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Research is one of the Nation's very greatest resources and the role of the Federal Government in supporting and stimulating it needs… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The American people want their government to act, and not merely to talk, whenever and wherever there is a threat to world… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Industrial combination is not wrong in itself. The danger lies in taking government into partnership. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share
'Peace on earth, good will toward men' - democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy cannot live… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share
I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share
All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share
They have given their sons to the military services. They have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels. They have made the planes… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share
On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia... — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share
The core of our defense is the faith we have in the institutions we defend. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share
Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share
Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share
The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in Government than in politics. The growing… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share
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