“True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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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.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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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.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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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.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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