Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes About Poverty

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  • True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

    People  
    Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy
  • The peoples of many countries are being taxed to the point of poverty and starvation in order to enable Governments to engage in a mad race in armament which, if permitted to continue, may well result in war. This grave menace to the peace of the world is due in no small measure to the uncontrolled activities of the manufacturers and merchants of engines of destruction, and it it must be met by the concerted actions of the peoples of all Nations.

    "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1934, Volume 3".
  • The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

    Men  
    Radio address, 7 Apr. 1932 See Sumner 3
  • Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

    Men   Giving  
    Franklin D. Roosevelt (2008). “Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944”, Red & Black Pub
  • The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.

    Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy
  • The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

    Second Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1937
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Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • Born: January 30, 1882
  • Died: April 12, 1945
  • Occupation: 32nd U.S. President