We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTBooks can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory… In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man’s freedom.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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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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Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.
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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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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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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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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.
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We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.
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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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Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
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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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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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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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