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
The function of Government must be to favor no small group at the expense of its duty to protect the rights of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned. — 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
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 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
No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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
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
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
And yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils… — 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
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
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. — 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
“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
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
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
