A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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About Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving US president and the only one to have served more than two terms. His first two terms were centered on combating the Great Depression, while his third and fourth focused on US involvement in World War II. A member of the Democratic Party, Roosevelt served in the New York State Senate from 1911 to 1913 and as the 44th governor of New York…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Franklin D. RooseveltNot only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
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…
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
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Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.
Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.