"The function of Government must be to..." - Quote by Franklin D Roosevelt
The function of Government must be to favor no small group at the expense of its duty to protect the rights of personal freedom and of private property of all its citizens.
More by Franklin D Roosevelt
“The only thing we have to fear is a giant wheelchair-crushing squid. Well... uh... actually, I guess that's the only thing I have to fear.”
“We have nothing to fear but fear itself.”
“For every advance that the Japanese have made since they started their frenzied career of conquest, they have had to pay a very heavy toll in warships, in transports, in planes, and in men. They are feeling the effects of those losses.”
More on Government
“The . . . inescapable truth is: government does not have all the answers. In too many instances, government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.”
“To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical...A wise and frugal government...shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned...Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare but only those specifically enumerated...Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands?”
“The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.”
More on Rights
“Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.”
“In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.”
“The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.”