One-Liner Wednesday: the people and government

The people are what matter to government and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.

~~~ Frances Perkins

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One-Liner Wednesday: FDR on liberty and fascism

“…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.”
~~~ US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1938

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