Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTThose who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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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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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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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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Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
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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.
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In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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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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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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Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
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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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We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
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