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No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order (Franklin D Roosevelt Quotes)
All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River (Franklin D Roosevelt Quotes)
A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for either art or artists to survive. Crush individuality in society and you crush art as well. Nourish the conditions of a free life and you nourish the arts, too (Franklin D Roosevelt Quotes)
I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation (Franklin D Roosevelt Quotes)
In vain these economic royalists seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike (Franklin D Roosevelt Quotes)
I hope that you have re-read the Constitution of the United States in these past few weeks. Like the Bible, it ought to be read again and again (Franklin D Roosevelt Quotes)
They have given their sons to the military services. They have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels. They have made the planes and welded the tanks. Riveted the ships and rolled the shells (Franklin D Roosevelt Quotes)
There is one front and one battle where everyone in the United States-every man, woman, and child-is in action, and will be privileged to remain in action throughout this war. That front is right here at home, in our daily lives, and in our daily tasks (Franklin D Roosevelt Quotes)
That is the spiral galaxy in Andromeda. It is as large as our Milky Way. It is one of a hundred million galaxies. It consists of one hundred billion suns. Now I think we are small enough (Franklin D Roosevelt Quotes)
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people’s money, other people’s business, other people’s labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society (Franklin D Roosevelt Quotes)
The Social Security Act offers to all our citizens a workable and working method of meeting urgent present needs and of forestalling future need. It utilizes the familiar machinery of our Federal-State government to promote the common welfare and the economic stability of the Nation (Franklin D Roosevelt Quotes)
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 (Franklin D Roosevelt Quotes)
To a great extent the achievements of invention, of mechanical and of artistic creation, must of necessity, and rightly, be individual rather than governmental. It is the self-reliant pioneer in every enterprise who beats the path along which American civilization has marched. Such individual effort is the glory of America (Franklin D Roosevelt Quotes)
Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live (Franklin D Roosevelt Quotes)
Do not confuse objectives with methods. When the nation becomes substantially united in favor of planning the broad objectives of civilization, then true leadership must unite thought behind definite methods (Franklin D Roosevelt Quotes)
I regard reduction in Federal spending as one of the most important issues of this campaign. In my opinion, it is the most direct and effective contribution that Government can make to business (Franklin D Roosevelt Quotes)
General de Gaulle was a thoroughly bad boy. The day he arrived, he thought he was Joan of Arc and the following day he insisted that he was Georges Clemenceau (Franklin D Roosevelt Quotes)
The handling of our forests as a continuous, renewable resource means permanent employment and stability to our country life. The forests are also needed for mitigating extreme climatic fluctuations, holding the soil on the slopes, retaining the moisture in the ground, and controlling the equable flow of water in our streams (Franklin D Roosevelt Quotes)
I believe that the fundamental proposition is that we must recognize that the hostilities in Europe, in Africa, and in Asia are all parts of a single world conflict. We must, consequently, recognize that our interests are menaced both in Europe and in the Far East (Franklin D Roosevelt Quotes)
Of course we will continue to work for cheaper electricity in the homes and on the farms of America; for better and cheaper transportation; for low interest rates; for sounder home financing; for better banking; for the regulation of security issues; for reciprocal trade among nations and for the wiping out of slums. And my friends, for all of these we have only begun to fight (Franklin D Roosevelt Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all. (Franklin D Roosevelt Quotes)
It isn’t sufficient just to want - you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want. (Franklin D Roosevelt Quotes)
Sometimes the best way to keep peace in the family is to keep the members of the family apart for awhile. (Franklin D Roosevelt Quotes)
There can be little doubt that in many ways the story of bridge building is the story of civilisation. By it we can readily measure an important part of a people’s progress. (Franklin D Roosevelt Quotes)
We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering (Franklin D Roosevelt Quotes)
No business is above Government; and Government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above Government. (Franklin D Roosevelt Quotes)
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 future wars. (Franklin D Roosevelt Quotes)
To return to higher standards of living we must abandon the false prophets and seek new leaders of our own choosing. (Franklin D Roosevelt Quotes)
I suggest a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas. (Franklin D Roosevelt Quotes)