Beware of that profound enemy of the free enterprise system who pays lip-service to free competition, but also labels every antitrust prosecution as a persecution. Franklin D. Roosevelt More Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt More Quotes From Franklin D. Roosevelt 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. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. ...And as a result the average man once more confronts the problem that faced the Minute Man. Franklin D. Roosevelt libertyaveragemen 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 all go down as one people. Franklin D. Roosevelt politicalambitionpeople If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time. Franklin D. Roosevelt ninety-nineinspirationalpeople Among American citizens, there should be no forgotten men and no forgotten races. Franklin D. Roosevelt citizensracemen We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind. Franklin D. Roosevelt politicspoweramerica In the formative days of the Republic, the directing influence the Bible exercised upon the fathers of the Nation is conspicuously evident. Franklin D. Roosevelt republicinfluencefather Freedom of speech...Freedom of worship...Freedom from want...Freedom from fear. Franklin D. Roosevelt freedom-of-speechmemorialpolitical I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made. Franklin D. Roosevelt judgementjudgingenemy History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by democratic methods people get a government strong enough to protect them from fear and starvation, their democracy succeeds; but if they do not, they grow impatient. Therefore, the only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over its government. Franklin D. Roosevelt governmentstrongsuccessful The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. Franklin D. Roosevelt leadershipeducationteacher No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb. Franklin D. Roosevelt ruthlessnessbombsmen Dec. 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - Franklin D. Roosevelt winninglongpeople We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days. Franklin D. Roosevelt landwisethinking We, too, born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing to fight to maintain freedom. We, and all others who believe as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees. Franklin D. Roosevelt veterans-dayfightingbelieve Do the best you can do and wait the results in peace. Franklin D. Roosevelt do-the-bestresultswaiting A wise Government seeks to provide the opportunity through which the best of individual achievement can be obtained, while at the same time it seeks to remove such obstruction, such unfairness as springs from selfish human motives. Franklin D. Roosevelt selfishwisespring Liberty requires opportunity to make a living--a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives a man not only enough to live by, but something to live for. Franklin D. Roosevelt freedomopportunitymen Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories, in tax-sold farms, and in hordes of hungry people, tramping the streets and seeking jobs in vain. Our workers may never see a tax bill, but they pay. They pay in deductions from wages, in increased cost of what they buy, or - as now - in broad unemployment throughout the land. Franklin D. Roosevelt landjobsmen Forests are the lungs of our land. Franklin D. Roosevelt earth-daylandtree 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 rights of the many are conserved. Franklin D. Roosevelt governmentpurposerights
