Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTThe school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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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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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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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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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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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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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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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.
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The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
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