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Franklin D. Roosevelt

"We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics."

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"We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics."

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"Your moral foundation and character currently depend on what you hear."

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"Morality exists in the neurons as a natural sensation. Religion only tries to codify it."

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"Ethics are the things that say, 'Don't stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It's okay because we've shut off the electricity.' And at the point that we've chosen to listen to the world and ignore our ethics, we say, 'I'm having a really hard time getting back up."

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"People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty."

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"The Lord does not love wicked people with self-interest and involved in inquity."

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"It is better to have little and be right than to have much and be wrong."

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"The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts."

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"I've a regard for law, although I do not always agree with it. Without law, man becomes a beast."

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"To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity."

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"Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth."

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"A Radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air. A Conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A Reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest-at the command-of his head."
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"It is the purpose of government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the welfare and rights of the many are conserved."
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"We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression - everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want...everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear... anywhere in the world."
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"Peace like charity begins at home."
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"Above all try something."
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"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."
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"I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat."
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"A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns."
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"Some people can never understand that you have to wait, even for the best of things, until the right time comes."
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