Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTNo 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.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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 Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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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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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.
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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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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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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.
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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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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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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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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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