A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
Franklin D. RooseveltIt [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.
Franklin D. RooseveltThere is one front and one battle where everyone in the United States-every man, woman, and child-is in action, and will be privileged to remain in action throughout this war. That front is right here at home, in our daily lives, and in our daily tasks.
Franklin D. RooseveltThe 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