"The liberty of a democracy is not safe……" — Franklin D. Roosevelt

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated… - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power."

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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