"A Radical is a man with both feet firmly planted -- in the air.
A Conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
A Reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest, at the command, of his head."
Radio address, October 26, 1939.
"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism ~ ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power."
Message proposing the Monopoly Investigation, 1938.
~ THE GREAT THOUGHTS...the ideas that have shaped the history of the world. Compiled by George Seldes, Ballantine, 1985.
