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No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country


Franklin D. Roosevelt

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ROBERT DALLEK The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
ELBERT HUBBARD Before the tribunal of nature, a man has no more right to life than a rattlesnake; he has no more ri...
WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the...
CAMILLE PAGLIA One's own employees ought to be one's own best customers. Paying high wages is behind the prosperity...
HENRY FORD The bible says no man can take your joy. That means no person can make you live with a negative atti...
JOEL OSTEEN All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than th...
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GINA RINEHART It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bod...
FLORENCE KELLEY I met (Franklin) Roosevelt once on the back of a train,
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ROBERT DALLEK I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on ...
JAMES A. BALDWIN I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on ...
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JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN Up to this day, there has been no proof of the existence of any intelligence other than the human.
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EDWARD BOK Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers...
EDMUND PHELPS Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.
DAVID R. GERGEN Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.
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JAMES HOFFA I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on th...
JAMES BALDWIN Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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FELICIA DAY My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
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OTTO WALLACH It is essential for politicians to make a connection with us, as Franklin Roosevelt did, as Teddy Ro...
PETER JENNINGS I am a happier person living in a country which has surplus of everything rather than shortages.
PIYUSH GOYAL Real danger is nothing more than just living. Of course, living is merely the chaos of existence, bu...
YUKIO MISHIMA I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic dea...
RAHM EMANUEL He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit whe...
JACK LONDON I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.
SHANE L. KOYCZAN No government, no organisation, no citizen can afford to be less than vigilant in combating bigotry,...
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ANGELA DAVIS Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by...
ANGELA DAVIS In New Classical theory, periods of declining employment - business cycle downturns - may be caused ...
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ANN RICHARDS This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life...
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER The issue for the coming year is whether workers will be able to catch up on their wages.
MICHAEL WALD Franklin Roosevelt stands like a sharply formed rock in a shapeless sea. spoken on Book TV by a Jack...
JUSTICE ROBERT JACKSON I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than b...
GEORGE WASHINGTON It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But a...
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RICK CHILSON its no matter neither what is right nor what is wrong,in the end it depends upon on your choice...
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MICHAEL CARUSO Not one country in existence today has had the same borders and government for as long as two hundre...
JIM ROGERS This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state...
ASA GRAY No, snakes are no problem. I'd go to any country, anywhere, any snakes, not a problem.
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JAVAD VAIDI I never loved you any more than I do, right this second. And I'll never love you any less than I do,...
KAMI GARCIA All the workers wanted to stay. They had nowhere else to go. Their future depends on this factory. S...
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KIN HUBBARD Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
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FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live on in infamy - the United States of America was...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economic...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The constant free flow of communication amount us-enabling the free interchange of ideas-forms the v...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority o...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties w...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is wheth...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Confidence....thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful prote...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT If we can ''boondoggle'' ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT the first war of the 21st century.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT a poverty-ridden old age.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We can never insure 100 percent of the population against 100 percent of the hazards and vicissitude...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We should never forge those that did not return,
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT greatly impressed.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, or preventing all possibility of its...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT It got to a point where I had to get a hair-cut or a violin
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising busi...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that is have free and independent l...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We shall make the most lasting progress if we recognize that Social Security can furnish only a base...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Government run by organized money is the same as government run by the organized mob
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business,...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment. If it ...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Whoever seeks to set one race against another seeks to enslave all races
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Instructions for making a speech: Be sincere; be brief; be seated
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We can afford all that we need; but we cannot afford all that we want
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I love it--I just love it.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT There is nothing so American as our national parks. The scenery and the wildlife are native. The fun...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We are going to tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I think we consider too much the luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early wor...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If i...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the f...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT He (Somoza, the elder in Nicaragua) may be an SOB but he's our SOB
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Instructions for making a speech: Be sincere; be brief; be seated
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a s...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Be sincere, Be brief, Be seated.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT