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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTWe must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
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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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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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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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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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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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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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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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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory… In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man’s freedom.
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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
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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 school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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