Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTPeople acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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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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The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.
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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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Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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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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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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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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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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I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
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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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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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