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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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1455 |
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AUTHOR:
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) |
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QUOTATION:
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They realize that in thirty-four months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a people’s Government this power is wholesome and proper. But in the hands of political puppets of an economic autocracy such power would provide shackles for the liberties of the people. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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President FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, annual message to the Congress, January 3, 1936.—The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936, p. 16 (1938). |
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SUBJECTS:
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Power |
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