Average Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt

It seems that the inevitable fate of man is never attain complete freedom: princes everywhere tend to despotism and the people to servitude.

— Jean-Paul Marat

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not.…

— Joseph de Maistre

For out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties. New kingdoms were built upon concentration of control over material things. Through new…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Abetted by misguided or co-opted intellectuals, the rulers weave a cloak of legitimacy to disguise their theft and hence to ease their extraction of…

— Robert Higgs

“What I’m talking about is the order of chosen men who inherit power. From Pharaohs and kings to bankers and executives. Their path is…

— Nick Drnaso

The men of wealth who today are trying to prevent the regulation and control of their business in the interest of the public by…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The more princes abstain from touching the wealth of their people, the greater will be their resources in the wants of the state.

— Pulcheria

“They are sustained by the ancient institutions of religion, which are so powerful and of such a quality that they keep their princes in…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

In respect to foresight and firmness, the people are more prudent, more stable, and have better judgement than princes.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their…

— Ben Jonson

“Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.” And if they would destroy economies, they first create a wealthy class on top, and…

— Michael Hudson

“For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind.…

— John Calvin