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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTIt is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.
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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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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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We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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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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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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We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
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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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I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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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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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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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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