I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTIn our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.
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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 know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.
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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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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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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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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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Go for the moon. If you don’t get it, you’ll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort.
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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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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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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred.
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