Every man has a right to life. That means that he also has a right to make a comfortable living.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Wise and prudent men intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing times.
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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
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Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
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I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.
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The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
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Happiness is not in the mere possession of money it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
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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.
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No business which depends for its 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 levelI mean the wages of decent living.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.
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We would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
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The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
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