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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
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Death Enjoyment Man Privilege Win
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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Beware Man Order Special Wings
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
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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Doubt Limitation Ourselves
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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Oneself Stand Still Way
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
The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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Best Customer Paid Work
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
It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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Character Democracy Freedom Oneself Unity
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
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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Country Hate Man Occupation People President
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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Control Essence Government Power Privacy
Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.
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Clear Eyes Forest Government Pollution School
Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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Ability Myself Pay Principle
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.
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Alien Country Democracy Forget Government Power Rule Vote
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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Country Employment Rich Social Order Wasted Time

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