What America needs now is a drink.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTMen are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
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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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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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The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.
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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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We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.
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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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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.
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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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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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