Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
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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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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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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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
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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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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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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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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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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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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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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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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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