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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTAn 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.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
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If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.
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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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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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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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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 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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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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We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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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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