Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTWe must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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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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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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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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In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
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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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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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We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.
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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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If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.
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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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