Franklin D. Roosevelt
| “ | The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. | ” |
| — Franklin D. Roosevelt, April 29, 1938. Message to congress. |
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