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Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7

Book by Franklin D. Roosevelt · 3 quotes · Democracy, Ifs, Liberty

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Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7 Quotes

“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.”

“The liberal party is a party which believes that, as new conditions an problems arise beyond the power of men and women to meet as individuals, it becomes the duty of the government itself to find new remedies with which to meet them.”

“The Social Security Act offers to all our citizens a workable and working method of meeting urgent present needs and of forestalling future need. It utilizes the familiar machinery of our Federal-State government to promote the common welfare and the economic stability of the Nation.”