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.
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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I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
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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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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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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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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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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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In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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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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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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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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