It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTThere are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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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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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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An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as peas in the same pod.
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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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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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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 want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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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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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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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.
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Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
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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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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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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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