It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.
Franklin D. RooseveltThe 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.
Franklin D. RooseveltNo democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
Franklin D. RooseveltThe future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in Government than in politics. The growing independence of voters, after all, has been proven by the votes in every Presidential election since my childhood and the tendency, frankly, is on the increase.
Franklin D. Roosevelt