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We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#ambition #appetite #assert #continue #earn

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#dispose #duty #president #privilege #propose

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#concerned #constitute #education #government #group

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#american people #come #depression #enshrined #going

Even the Congressional Budget Office and the Social Security trustees appointed by the president say that Social Security is financially sound, without any changes for the next 40 to 50 years. ↗

— James Roosevelt

#appointed #budget #changes #congressional #even

It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on down, keep invoking the name of my grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. ↗

— James Roosevelt

#delano #down #folks #franklin #grandfather

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#american public #announce #criticism #morally #must

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#effort #freedom #freedom from #in the past #means

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#ease #i #i wish #ignoble #life

Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice. ↗

— Elihu Root

#come #control #exclude #generations #human