Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTWe know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
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Go for the moon. If you don’t get it, you’ll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort.
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In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country… By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level – I mean the wages of decent living.
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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.
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Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
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We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.
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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred.
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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