No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country… By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level – I mean the wages of decent living.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTNobody 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.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
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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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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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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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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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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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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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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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 Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.
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