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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
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Empty Failure Human Loud Stomach Unfortunate
We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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Bad Economics Interest Moral
Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
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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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Control Enough Government Liberty Maintain Protection Strong
If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.
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Generosity Karma Kindness People Right Time Yourself
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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Destiny General Government Help Insistence
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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Challenge Conscience Democracy Freedom Fundamental Success
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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Choice Democracy Education Expression Safety Success
Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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Play Remember Worth Yourself
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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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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Acceptance Democracy Fundamental Minority Recognition Right Survive
The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
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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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Failure Method Try
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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