It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTRepetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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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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We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
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In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.
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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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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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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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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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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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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.
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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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