Peace, like charity, begins at home.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTHere is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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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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The motto of war is: “Let the strong survive; let the weak die.” The motto of peace is: “Let the strong help the weak to survive.”
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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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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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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.
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Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory… In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man’s freedom.
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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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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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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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We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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