For #PresidentsDay , these quotes from #FranklinDRoosevelt (1933-1945) seem to be most applicable today:

“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.”

"The liberty of a #democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.”

“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.”

#FDR was the first U.S. President to be inaugurated in the month of January (originally it was in March), and the last quote is from that inauguration speech.

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