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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTThere are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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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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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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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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The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
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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 only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
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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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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred.
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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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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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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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