I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTThe best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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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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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 barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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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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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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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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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
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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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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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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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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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