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The duty of the State toward the citizen is the duty of the servant to its master.... One of the duties of the State is that of caring for those of its citizens who find themselves the victims of such adverse

The duty of the State toward the citizen is the duty of the servant to its master.... One of the duties of the State is that of caring for those of its citizens who find themselves the victims of such adverse circumstances as makes them unable to obtain even the necessities for mere existence without the aid of others.... To these unfortunate citizens aid must be extended by government--not as a matter of charity but as a matter of social duty.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Caring, Government, Citizens

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson...

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Freedom, Real, World Government
"F.D.R.: His Personal Letters, 1928-1945" edited by Elliott Roosevelt, New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, (p. 373), 1950.

The first theory is that if we make the rich richer, somehow they will let a part of their prosperity trickle down to the rest of us. The second theory was the theory that if we make the average of mankind comfortable and secure, their prosperity will rise upward through the ranks.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Average, Firsts, Prosperity
Campaign address, Detroit, Mich., 2 Oct. 1932

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Money, Political, Politics

Above all, try something

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Life, Motivational, Hope
Address at Oglethorpe University, 22 May (1932)

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Destiny, Government, Class

Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Real, Common Sense, World

Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nature, School, Eye
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.258, Best Books on

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Firsts, Newspapers, Dictatorship

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Peace, War, Government

We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Inspirational, Motivational, Change
Franklin D. Roosevelt (2010). “Quotations of Franklin Delano Roosevelt”

To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in our Federal government. . . The individual sovereignty of our states must first be destroyed.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Government, Democracy, Liberty

It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Independent, Organized Labor, Unions

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
Freedom, Opportunity, Men
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Country, Order, Unemployment
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1934, Volume 3”, p.420, Best Books on

Organized money hates me--and I welcome their hatred!

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hate, Hatred, Welcome

Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Forgiveness, War, Naked

It will never be possible for any length of time for any group of the American people, either by reason of wealth or learning or inheritance or economic power, to retain any mandate, any permanent authority to arrogate to itself the political control of American public life.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
People, Cynical, Political

Do the best you can do and wait the results in peace.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Waiting, Results, Do The Best

In this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens, a substantial part of its whole population, who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life. I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Government, Progress, Population
Second Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1937

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Destiny, Presidential, This Generation
Speech accepting renomination as president, Philadelphia, Pa., 27 June 1936

The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. Thats the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership. All our great Presidents were leaders of thought at times when certain historic ideas in the life of the nation had to be clarified.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Jobs, Engineering, Moral Leadership

They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fighting, Sacrifice, Lust
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Power, America, Politics
Franklin D. Roosevelt (2008). “Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944”, Red & Black Pub

Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Taxation, Taxes Funny, Pay