Citizens Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

12 Citizens quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Roosevelt’s voice steadied a nation in crisis; these 12 quotes capture his belief in the power of ordinary people to overcome hardship. A brief but inspiring snapshot of his civic optimism.

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Among American citizens, there should be no forgotten men and no forgotten races.

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To carry adequate life insurance is a moral obligation incumbent upon the great majority of citizens.

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The Social Security Act offers to all our citizens a workable and working method of meeting urgent present needs and of forestalling…

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In time of this grave national danger, when all excess income should go to win the war, no American citizen ought to…

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The function of Government must be to favor no small group at the expense of its duty to protect the rights of…

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Your profits are going to be cut down to a reasonably low level by taxation. Your income will be subject to higher…

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We stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the…

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In the final analysis, the progress of our civilization will be retarded if any large body of citizens falls behind. Without the…

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In this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens, a substantial part of its whole population, who at this very…

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The duty of the State toward the citizen is the duty of the servant to its master… One of the duties of…

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[M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature…

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The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the government, but they have maintained that…

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