The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTTo some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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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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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 have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.
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We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
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True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
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Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter.
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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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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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The motto of war is: “Let the strong survive; let the weak die.” The motto of peace is: “Let the strong help the weak to survive.”
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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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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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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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