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. ROOSEVELTIt is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.
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If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
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Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.
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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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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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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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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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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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People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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