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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTWe may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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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 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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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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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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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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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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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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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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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
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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 only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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