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When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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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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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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

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Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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

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

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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

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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

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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

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