It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTWe are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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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.
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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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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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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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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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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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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