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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
Exactly…
May 23, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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.
Freedom
Franklin D. Roosevelt
May 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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
May 19, 2025 at 10:57 AM
We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
May 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

Theodore Roosevelt
May 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
"What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone." ~ Theodore Roosevelt
May 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
It is the people, and not the judges, who are entitled to say what their constitution means, for the constitution is theirs, it belongs to them and not to their servants in office—any other theory is incompatible with the foundation principles of our government.

Theodore Roosevelt
May 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible govt., to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today.
May 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
May 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him. it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth.

Theodore Roosevelt.
May 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM