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
We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in… — 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
Are we going to take the hands of the federal government completely off any effort to adjust the growing of national crops,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens, a substantial part of its whole population, who at this very… — 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
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
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
Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will. — 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
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. Yes, an end to this brutal,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Is the United States going to decide, are the people of this country going to decide that their Federal Government shall in… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The Social Security Act offers to all our citizens a workable and working method of meeting urgent present needs and of forestalling… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The peoples of many countries are being taxed to the point of poverty and starvation in order to enable Governments to engage… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant. — 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
The duty of the State toward the citizen is the duty of the servant to its master.... One of the duties of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint… — 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
“It is the purpose of government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the… — 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
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 Image
'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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The core of our defense is the faith we have in the institutions we defend. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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 Image
Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image