We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTWe are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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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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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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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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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
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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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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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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 real safeguard of democracy is education.
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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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What America needs now is a drink.
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Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter.
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We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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