In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTGovernment cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.
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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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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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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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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
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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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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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What America needs now is a drink.
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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 government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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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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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.
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