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From Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories, in tax-sold farms,…
- We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of…
- We all know that books burn, yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die.…
- The public schools shall be free from sectarian influences and, above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed.
- Freedom of speech...Freedom of worship...Freedom from want...Freedom from fear.
- We may make mistakes-but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle.
- It seems to me that the dedication of a library is an act of faith. To bring together the resources of the past and to…
- The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of the minority, and…
- We must save the Constitution from the [Supreme] Court and the Court from itself.
- History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by democratic methods people…
- Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it and to avoid…
- The money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths.
- A wise Government seeks to provide the opportunity through which the best of individual achievement can be obtained, while at the same time it seeks…
- The True conservative seeks to protect the system of private property and free enterprise by correcting such injustices and inequalities as arise from it. The…
- We are not isolationists except in so far as we seek to isolate ourselves completely from war. Yet we must remember that so long as…
- Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and…
- Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating…
- Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we…
- Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing…
- The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic…
- We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed…
- We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expressioneverywhere in the world. The second…
- If civilization is to survive, theprinciples of the Prince of Peace must be restored. Shattered trust between nations must be revived. Mostimportant of all the…
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