--Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1938

[elleng]

"Democracy has disappeared in several other great nations, not because the people of those nations disliked democracy, but because they had grown tired of unemployment and insecurity, of seeing their children hungry while they sat helpless in the face of government confusion and government weakness through lack of leadership in government. Finally, in desperation, they chose to sacrifice liberty in the hope of getting something to eat."
—Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1938

[MichMan]

1. Yet a few years later, he removed Japanese Americans from their homes & put them in prison camps

They didn't get the chance to decide if they wanted liberty.

[Tomconroy]

3. See response #2.

[Tomconroy]

2. Perhaps not a perfect president, but by far as perfect a president as we will ever get.