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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTIt is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.
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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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We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
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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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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.
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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred.
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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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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party.
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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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