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Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt QUOTES

1 " or creed.” These rights included: The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation; The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation; The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living; The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad; The right of every family to a decent home; The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health; The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment; The right to a good education. Roosevelt "

― H.W. Brands , Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

2 " 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 too little. "

― H.W. Brands , Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

3 " Boys, here's where I cash in my chips.[House judiciary committee chairman Hatton Summers(D) to Vice President John Nance Garner about Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan to 'pack the court'.] "

― H.W. Brands , Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

4 " coltish-looking, "

― H.W. Brands , Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

5 " Liberty and freedom and democracy are so very precious that you do not fight to win them once and stop. You do not do that. Liberty and freedom and democracy are prizes awarded only to those peoples who fight to win them and then keep fighting eternally to hold them. "

― H.W. Brands , Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt