Liberty Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We are going to tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

The people of America are in agreement in defending their liberties at any cost, and the first line of that defense lies…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is a good thing to demand liberty for ourselves and for those who agree with us, but it is a better…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Nazi danger to our Western world has long ceased to be a mere possibility. The danger is here now--not only from…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government . . . costs too much.…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

They realize that in thirty-four months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a peoples Government…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands they must be made brighter in our own. If…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are strong and self-reliant, and…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

[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

Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories,…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people's property, other people's money, other people's…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

If we do not halt this steady process of building commissions and regulatory bodies and the special legislation like huge inverted pyramids…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The lessons of religious toleration - a toleration which recognizes complete liberty of human thought, liberty of conscience - is one which,…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Liberty requires opportunity to make a living--a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives a man…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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

These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt