Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

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• It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there.
• My own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism.
• The liberal party is a party which believes that, as new conditions an problems arise beyond the power of men and women to meet as…
• Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.
• For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government . . . costs too much. I shall not…
• Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories, in tax-sold farms,…
• To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in our Federal government.…
• We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
• I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.
• 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 the…
• We have nothing to fear but fear itself.
• We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
• The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or…
• We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws…
• There has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that Americans have considerable industrial power…
• We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of…
• I think this would be a good time for a beer.
• The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.
• Beware of that profound enemy of the free enterprise system who pays lip-service to free competition, but also labels every antitrust prosecution as a persecution.
• In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.

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