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Political Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt
- The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics.
- Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.
- 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…
- That, in essence is Fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any controlling private power.
- I pledge you, pledge myself, to a New Deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order…
- It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.
- 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…
- It is time to extend planning to a wider field, in this instance comprehending in one great project many states directly concerned with the basin…
- Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the germs of another…
- Freedom of speech...Freedom of worship...Freedom from want...Freedom from fear.
- 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…
- In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
- Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President…
- A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
- I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
- I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
- 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…
- It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
- Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
- Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
- No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.
- In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.
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