“I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them." [ Letter to Herbert Putnam ; in: Waters, Edward N.: Herbert Putnam: the tallest little… — Franklin Delano Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength… — Franklin Delano Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism -- ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power… Among us today… — Franklin Delano Roosevelt Copy Share
“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob. --Franklin Delano Roosevelt,… — Franklin Delano Roosevelt Copy Share
“I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great… — Franklin Delano Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The Truth is found when men (and Women) are free to pursue it.” — Franklin Delano Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing… — Franklin Delano Roosevelt Copy Share Image
