No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTThe loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.
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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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People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.
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The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.
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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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The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party.
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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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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 know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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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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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.
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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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I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
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