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Rights Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.
- We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom…
- No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
- The lessons of religious toleration - a toleration which recognizes complete liberty of human thought, liberty of conscience - is one which, by precept and…
- The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of the minority, and…
- It is the purpose of the government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the welfare and…
- The function of Government must be to favor no small group at the expense of its duty to protect the rights of personal freedom and…
- Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them.
- No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.
- If civilization is to survive, theprinciples of the Prince of Peace must be restored. Shattered trust between nations must be revived. Mostimportant of all the…
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- Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton
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