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.
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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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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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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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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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
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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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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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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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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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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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