The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTNo 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.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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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 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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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.
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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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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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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred.
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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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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
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