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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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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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Attack Design Justice Oppression Ourselves Remember
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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The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
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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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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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Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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What America needs now is a drink.
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If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.
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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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If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
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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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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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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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