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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTWe must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
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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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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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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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The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.
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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.
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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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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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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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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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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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Go for the moon. If you don’t get it, you’ll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort.
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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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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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