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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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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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Gradually, everything that happens in the world is coming to be of interest everywhere in the world, and, gradually, thoughtful men and women everywhere are sitting in judgment upon the conduct of all nations. ↗

— Elihu Root

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It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes; and yet she will be woman still. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

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