It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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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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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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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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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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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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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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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What America needs now is a drink.
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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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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
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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.
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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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