Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our national debt after all is an internal debt owed not only by the Nation but to the Nation. If our children… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If the Nation is living within its income, its credit is good. If, in some crises, it lives beyond its income for… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Beware of that profound enemy of the free enterprise system who pays lip-service to free competition, but also labels every antitrust prosecution… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For every advance that the Japanese have made since they started their frenzied career of conquest, they have had to pay a… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It took six weeks of debate in the Senate to get the Arms Embargo Law repealed--and we face other delays during the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Out of the collapse… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
'Peace on earth, good will toward men' - democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy cannot live… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
They have given their sons to the military services. They have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels. They have made the planes… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia... — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The core of our defense is the faith we have in the institutions we defend. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
