We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTMen are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.
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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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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, 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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Go for the moon. If you don’t get it, you’ll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort.
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.
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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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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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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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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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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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