Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes about Democracy

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No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.

No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Rights, Long, Democracy

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.401, Best Books on

Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Presidential, Freedom Of Speech, Democracy

The real safeguard of democracy is education.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Real, Democracy

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

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

In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Democracy, Mob Rule, Flags

Franklin D. Roosevelt's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 27, 1936.

It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Concentration Of Wealth, Political, Democracy

Democracy is not a static thing. It is an everlasting march.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Democracy, March, Static

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4”, p.403, Best Books on

Where freedom of religion has been attacked, the attack has come from sources opposed to democracy. Where democracy has been overthrown, the spirit of free worship has disappeared. And where religion and democracy have vanished, good faith and reason in international affairs have given way to strident ambition and brute force.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Ambition, Democracies Have, Democracy

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

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Government, Democracy, United States

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6”, p.570, Best Books on

We must be the great arsenal of democracy. For us this is an emergency as serious as war itself. We must apply ourselves to our task with the same resolution, the same sense of urgency, the same spirit of patriotism and sacrifice as we would show were we at war.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

War, Sacrifice, Democracy

The Great Arsenal of Democracy, delivered 29 December 1940

I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Democracy, Library, Conviction

A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching workers' hours.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Children, Self, Democracy

Franklin D. Roosevelt's message to Congress on Establishing Minimum Wages and Maximum Hours, May 24, 1937.

Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Men, Democracy, World War 2

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

We must be the great arsenal of Democracy.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

History, Presidential, Democracy

Radio broadcast, 29 Dec. 1940. According to Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas, The Wise Men (1986), this slogan was picked up for Roosevelt's address after it was used in conversation by John McCloy, who had gotten it from Jean Monnet.