We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTGo for the moon. If you don’t get it, you’ll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.
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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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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We 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.
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What America needs now is a drink.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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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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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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Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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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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We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
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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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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter.
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