If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTLet us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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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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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.
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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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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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Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
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It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
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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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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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Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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