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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTIf you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
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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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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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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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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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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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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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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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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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The motto of war is: “Let the strong survive; let the weak die.” The motto of peace is: “Let the strong help the weak to survive.”
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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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