I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTHuman 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.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party.
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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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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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No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
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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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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.
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We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.
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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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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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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
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What America needs now is a drink.
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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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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.
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The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
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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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We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
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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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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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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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If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
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If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.
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