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Economic Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt
- The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.
- Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.
- It is the habit of the unthinking to turn to the illusions of economic magic. These unhappy times call for the building of plans that…
- Economic diseases are highly communicable. It follows therefore that the economic health of every country is a proper matter of concern to all its neighbors,…
- They realize that in thirty-four months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a peoples Government this power is…
- This law represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means completed--a structure intended to lessen the force of…
- We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Out of the collapse of a prosperity…
- In vain these economic royalists seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution…
- All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed... and may only be opened in the presence of an agent of the…
- No greater blessing could come to our land today than a revival of the spirit of religion. I doubt if there is any problem in…
- You sometimes find something good in the lunatic fringe. In fact, we have got as part of our social and economic government today a whole…
- Is the United States going to decide, are the people of this country going to decide that their Federal Government shall in the future have…
- The Social Security Act offers to all our citizens a workable and working method of meeting urgent present needs and of forestalling future need. It…
- It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself.…
- These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away…
- True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships…
- In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else…
- But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made…
- Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to…
- More striking still, it appeared that, if the process of concentration goes on at the same rate, at the end of another century we shall…
- In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.
- We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
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- Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. — Mikhail Bakunin
- Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. — Frederic Bastiat