"Those who have long enjoyed such privileges..." - Quote by Franklin D Roosevelt
Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
More by Franklin D Roosevelt
“Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.”
“Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.”
“Inside the polling booth every American man and woman stands as the equal of every other American man and woman. There they have no superiors. There they have no masters save their own minds and consciences.”
More on Privilege
“When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.”
“You don't have to be a star to get a cheese sandwich. You just have to be first.”
“In many respects, people on the outside suffered more than those of us in jail. In prison, we ate three times a day, we had clothing, we had free medical services, and we could sleep for 12 hours.”
More on Sacrifice
“Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.”
“There can be no progress nor achievement without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be by the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts, and fixes his mind on the development of his plans, and the strengthening of his resolution and self-reliance.”
“Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.”