Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.
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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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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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
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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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Let 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.
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If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.
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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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In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
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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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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.
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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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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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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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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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