No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTTrue 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.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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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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Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.
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Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.
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The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
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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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I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
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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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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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