Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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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If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.
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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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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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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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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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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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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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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.
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Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.
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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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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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