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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFDR Quote...
Who will be the next populist president, who is the candidate who can give us this... And then take action to do something about it.
Yes the instigation of this post is from House of Cards but it's a good quote...
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FDR Quote... (Original Post)
Agschmid
Mar 2015
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C Moon
(12,221 posts)1. And we've been going full force in the opposite direction since Ronald Reagan.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)2. Well Hell,
... Republicans put and end to the word PROGRESS. We're going backwards, not forwards. They've replaced progress with regression, but if you say that out loud, they answer "We're exceptional!"
I say we're exceptionally stupid, if we can't "provide enough for those who have little." We flunked the test, miserably.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)3. Let us be clear about our choice ..
RiverLover
(7,830 posts)4. More FDR quotes~
"Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education."
"Not 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."
"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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 the government.
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.
We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
"Not 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."
"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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 the government.
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.
We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
We must remember.