"For three long years I have been..." - Quote by Franklin D Roosevelt

“The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics.”

“These are bad days for all of us who remember always that when real world forces come into conflict, the final result is never as dark as we mortals guess it in very difficult days.”

“We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.”

“The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the constitution. The citizen should be molded to suit the form of government under which he lives. For each government has a peculiar character which originally formed and which continues to preserve it. The character of democracy creates democracy, and the character of oligarchy creates oligarchy.”

“Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.”

“There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.”

“The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs.”

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”

“The expenses required to prevent a war are much lighter than those that will, if not prevented, be absolutely necessary to maintain it.”