A History of American Life.*

"It does not follow, because our difficulties are stupendous, because there are some souls timorous enough to doubt the validity and effectiveness of our ideals and our system, that we must turn to a State-controlled or State-directed social or economic system in order to cure our troubles. That is not liberalism; it is tyranny.
~Herbert Hoover, in acceptance of renomination, August 11, 1932, Campaign Speeches of 1932 (N.Y., 1933), 8-9.

"History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by democratic methods people get a government strong enough to protect them from fear and starvation, their democracy succeeds; but if they do not, they grow impatient. Therefore, the only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well informed enough to maintain its sovereign control over its government. We are a rich Nation; we can afford to pay for security and prosperity without having to sacrifice our liberties in the bargain.
~Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fireside Chat of April 14, 1938, Public Papers and Addresses (S.I. Rosenman, ed., N.Y., 1938-1941). VII. 242-243.


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* by Dixon Wecter. New York: The MacMillan Company. 1948. Editors: Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Dixon Ryan Fox.