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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 has to have a payroll tax that's dedicated to Social Security. The Social Security tax has been very successful over the years in raising almost all of our elderly citizens out of poverty. ↗

— James Roosevelt

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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

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight. ↗

— 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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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. ↗

— 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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I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate. ↗

— Elihu Root

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