Liberalism Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

8 Liberalism quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Franklin D. Roosevelt’s eight brief reflections on liberalism provide a modest glimpse into the ideas that guided his era.

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The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a…

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We need enthusiasm, imagination and the ability to face facts, even unpleasant ones, bravely. We need to correct, by drastic means if…

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A program whose basic thesis is, not that the system of free enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that…

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My own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism.

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A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest-at the command-of his head.

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Let us not confuse objectives with methods. Too many so-called leaders of the nation fail to see the forest because of the…

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The True conservative seeks to protect the system of private property and free enterprise by correcting such injustices and inequalities as arise…

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Do not confuse objectives with methods. When the nation becomes substantially united in favor of planning the broad objectives of civilization, then…

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In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.

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Inquisitiveness is the most useful talent.

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'Peace on earth, good will toward men' - democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy cannot live…

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I have seen war ... I hate war.

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I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men…

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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…

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They have given their sons to the military services. They have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels. They have made the planes…

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On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia...

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The core of our defense is the faith we have in the institutions we defend.

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War is a contagion.

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Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.

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Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.

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The frontier of America is on the Rhine.

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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

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The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in Government than in politics. The growing…

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