Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTThe 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.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
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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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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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 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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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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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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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.
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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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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We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.
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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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