No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTI want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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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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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
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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, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
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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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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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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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Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.
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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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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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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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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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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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