It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTWe, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.
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All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.
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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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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.
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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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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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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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