Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
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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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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Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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The motto of war is: “Let the strong survive; let the weak die.” The motto of peace is: “Let the strong help the weak to survive.”
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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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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.
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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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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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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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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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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
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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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Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
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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.
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