No business is above Government; and Government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above Government. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people. — 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
“The very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Industrial combination is not wrong in itself. The danger lies in taking government into partnership. — 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
“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
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in Government than in politics.… — 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
A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“A Radical is a man with both feet firmly planted--in the air. A Conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Let us not confuse objectives with methods. Too many so-called leaders of the nation fail to see the forest because of the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Good government should maintain the balance where every individual may have a place if he will take it, where every individual may… — 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
We need enthusiasm, imagination and the ability to face facts, even unpleasant ones, bravely. We need to correct, by drastic means if… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war… — 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
We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob. — 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
In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A program whose basic thesis is, not that the system of free enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that… — 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
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
Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Any Government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It will never be possible for any length of time for any group of the American people, either by reason of wealth… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You sometimes find something good in the lunatic fringe. In fact, we have got as part of our social and economic government… — 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
I regard reduction in Federal spending as one of the most important issues in this campaign. In my opinion it is the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, on my wife, or on my sons. No, not content with… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Do not confuse objectives with methods. When the nation becomes substantially united in favor of planning the broad objectives of civilization, then… — 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
