Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTWe know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
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Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
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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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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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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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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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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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Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
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Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter.
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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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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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No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.
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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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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
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