No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTWe have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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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.
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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.
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The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.
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We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.
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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.
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We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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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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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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