Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTWe may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.
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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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I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
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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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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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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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There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.
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An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as peas in the same pod.
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Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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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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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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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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In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
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