It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTThe best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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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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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.
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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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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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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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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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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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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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Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
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The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.
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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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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
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