It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTNobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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What America needs now is a drink.
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No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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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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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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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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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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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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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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We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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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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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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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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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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