In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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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Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.
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If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.
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The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party.
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Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
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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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Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
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We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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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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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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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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In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.
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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.
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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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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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