The Three Roosevelts Quotes

“Whereas underprivileged strata of society religiously hope for a better future, the overprivileged, disavowing any idea of transcendence, “live for the present by exploiting their great past.”
― James MacGregor Burns, The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America

“He warned that those “who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― James MacGregor Burns, The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America

“Millions of Republican fliers openly jeered at the poor, accusing FDR of providing “Free lunch to Hoboes, Relief Clients, Underprivileged Transients, and others who won’t work.”
― James MacGregor Burns, The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America

“The transmission from generation to generation of vast fortunes by will, inheritance, or gift,” declared FDR, “is not consistent with the ideals and sentiments of the American people,” adding that “inherited economic power is as inconsistent with the ideals of this generation as inherited political power was inconsistent with the ideals of the generation which established our government.”
― James MacGregor Burns, The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America

“If ever our people become so sordid as to feel that all that counts is moneyed prosperity, ignoble well-being, effortless ease and comfort,” he warned, “then this nation shall perish, as it will deserve to perish, from the earth.”
― James MacGregor Burns, The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America

“inspection.”
― James MacGregor Burns, The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America

“as a luxury liner, it had been converted to wartime use; with blacked-out portholes and gray camouflage paint, it had”
― James MacGregor Burns, The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America