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    The Wisdom of FDR
    The Wisdom of FDR
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    The Wisdom of FDR

    By Philosophical Library and Dagobert D. Runes

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    How a great American president communicated a changing worldview  What made Franklin Delano Roosevelt an effective leader? His policies and decisions changed our nation’s and the world’s history. But more than his skill as a savvy politician and progressive thinker, FDR’s ability to directly and eloquently voice his thoughts on national concerns, social change, and humanity spoke to and reached the hearts of his people. In this selection of quotes drawn from his speeches and papers, FDR’s observations and opinions cover everything from faith, war, and peace, to religion, freedom, and the very definition of what it is to be an American. Essays include “The Four Freedoms,” “We Belong to Many Races,” “True Education,” “The Rights of the Common Man,” “Dynamic Democracy,” and “Government with a Soul.”

     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPhilosophical Library Open Road
    Release dateNov 9, 2010
    ISBN9781453202760
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      The Wisdom of FDR - Philosophical Library

      THE WISDOM OF

      FDR

      Edited by Dagobert D. Runes

      Philosophical Library

      Prefatory Note

      This little book has been designed for the many persons here as well as abroad who would like to get a clearer picture of the inner motives, the personal outlook and the social philosophy of the late President. The editor has gone through the massive body of the available papers and utterances of Mr. Roosevelt and has drawn from them statements of the underlying principles and the fundamental faith that seem to have impelled the actions of this unusual man. These statements are to be found within the texture of the many discussions on various phases of public policy. Sometimes as a brief assertion of a compelling cause of action, sometimes almost as a casual aside, the words lead beyond the momentary issue to assertion of an abiding faith.

      This faith, combined with a deep-felt social philosophy and concern for human needs and aspirations, has from Jefferson and Lincoln to Roosevelt shaped the American way of life.

      D.D.R.

      Contents

      The American Way

      The Rights of the Common Man

      Young America

      The Inter-American Order

      Not Bread Alone

      Foreign Tyranny

      The Four Freedoms

      The Enemy Within

      Government with a Soul

      For Peace I Shall Labor

      True Education

      Dynamic Democracy

      We Belong to Many Races

      The American Way

      I affirm that life in the centuries that lie ahead must be based on positive and permanent values.

      The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate; since any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred within itself.

      The value of a belief in humanity and justice is always stronger in any land than the value of belief in force, because force at last turns inward and if that occurs each man or group of men is finally compelled to measure his strength against his own brother.

      The value of truth and sincerity is always stronger than the value of lies and cynicism. No process has yet been invented which can permanently separate men from their own hearts and consciences or prevent them from seeing the results of their own false ideas as time rolls by. You cannot make men believe that a way of life is good when it spreads poverty, misery, disease and death. Men cannot be everlastingly loyal unless they are free.

      We acclaim today the American Way.

      We are determined to live in peace and to make that peace secure. We are determined to follow the paths of free peoples to a civilization worthy of free men.

      4-15-1940

      The Rights of the Common Man

      In the early days of the Republic our life was simple. There was little need of formal arrangements, or of government interest, or action, to insure the social and economic well-being of the American people. In the life of the pioneer, sympathy and kindly help, ready cooperation in the accidents and emergencies of the frontier life were the spontaneous manifestation of the American spirit. Without them the conquest of a continent could never have been made.

      Today that life is gone. Its simplicity has vanished and we are each and all of us, whether we like it or not, parts of a social civilization which ever tends to greater complexity. And in these later days, the imperiled well-being, the very existence of large numbers of our people, have called for measures of organized Government assistance which the more spontaneous and personal promptings of a pioneer generosity could never alone have obtained. Our country is indeed passing through a period which is urgently in need of ardent protectors of the rights of the common man. Mechanization of industry and mass production have put unparalleled power in the hands of the few. No small part of our problem today is to bring the fruits of this mechanization and mass production to the people as a whole.

      6-10-1936

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      History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by democratic methods people get a government strong enough to protect them from fear and starvation, their democracy succeeds; but if they do not, they grow impatient. Therefore, the only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over its government.

      We are a rich Nation; we can afford to pay for security and prosperity without having to sacrifice our liberties in the bargain.

      4-14-1938

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      There must be no place in the post-war world for social privileges for either individuals or nations.

      11-7-1941

      •     •     •

      No business is above Government; and Government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above Government.

      9-2-1940

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      Government has a final responsibility for the

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