The traditional Jeffersonian principle of religious freedom was so broadly democratic that it included the right to have no religion at all - it gave to the individual the right to worship any God he chose or no god.
Franklin D. RooseveltWe think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days.
Franklin D. RooseveltWe must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
Franklin D. RooseveltWe 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.
Franklin D. RooseveltThere is nothing so American as our national parks. The scenery and the wildlife are native. The fundamental idea behind the parks is native. It is, in brief, that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process of making for the enrichment of the lives of all of us. The parks stand as the outward symbal of the great human principle.
Franklin D. Roosevelt