Religion, by teaching man his relationship to God, gives the individual a sense of his own dignity and teaches him to respect… — 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
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
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
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Friendship among nations, as among individuals, calls for constructive efforts to muster the forces of humanity in order that an atmosphere of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The traditional Jeffersonian principle of religious freedom was so broadly democratic that it included the right to have no religion at all… — 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
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
We count, in the future as in the past, on the driving power of individual initiative, on the incentive of fair private… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To a great extent the achievements of invention, of mechanical and of artistic creation, must of necessity, and rightly, be individual rather… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The liberal party is a party which believes that, as new conditions an problems arise beyond the power of men and women… — 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