Aesop Quotes

Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.

People need to have enough to eat and have work and money. But there are other things that are important.

I've seen that most of us want the same things: to be safe where we live, secure in our finances, and free in our lives.

Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.

The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.

We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too.

I don't know if I can live on my income or not - the government won't let me try it.

I myself am from a very poor background; I experienced firsthand poverty in this country, and that is not unrelated to my desire, from the moment I became president, to make a priority of poverty reduction in this country.

Happiness may exist under all conditions, given the right kind of people and sufficient economic security for adequate food and shelter.

You cannot fight poverty unless you have stability.

Destroy poverty, that source of crime, by assuring to each the satisfaction of all needs! And how difficult is this to achieve?

Is our national goal to place as many people on welfare, food stamp support, as we can possibly put on that program? Is that our goal? Is that a moral vision for the United States of America, just to see how many people we can place in a situation where they're dependent on the federal government for their food?

Being able to afford getting groceries - it frees people up to be creative. I think when you're spending 16 hours of every day to pay your rent and get food, I just don't see where there's time outside of that to be creative and make things.

When a mom or dad can stop worrying about where they will lay their head each night they can start climbing back on their feet and out of poverty.

Only people who can't draw money need belts.

I do think that people deserve a basic economic floor so the bottom doesn't fall out under them.

The war on poverty programs help address the pain of poverty.

I fear very much for our kids, for low income people and for seniors.

Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.

Yes, there is a burden of financial insecurity. I don't think you find it in mood. Income is correlated with life satisfaction, so maybe you do find it in life satisfaction. You don't find it in mood, and I think it is very important.

Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society which isn't collapsing around you-all of these things have been generally eroded.

I want the people of the Philippines to be happy, even if they have nothing.

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

I'm worried about that man or woman sitting around - the coffee table tonight or in their kitchen talking about how are we going to get to work. How are we going to have the dignity to take care of our family.

Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs.