Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
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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What America needs now is a drink.
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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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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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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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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
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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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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
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In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.
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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 school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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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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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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People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.
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