We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTWe, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
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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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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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What America needs now is a drink.
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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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The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
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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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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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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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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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