Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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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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We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
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Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.
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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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We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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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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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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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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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
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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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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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Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.
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