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. 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.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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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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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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It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
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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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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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What America needs now is a drink.
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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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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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No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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