"I do not look upon these United..." - Quote by Franklin D Roosevelt
I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.
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“No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country... By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living.”
“Research is one of the Nation's very greatest resources and the role of the Federal Government in supporting and stimulating it needs to reexamined.”
“A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.”
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“The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.”
“Most Americans haven't had my happy experience of living for thirteen years in a seventeenth-century house, since most of America lacks seventeenth-century houses.”
“The Constitution of the United States of America clearly affirms the right of every American citizen to bear arms. And as Americans, we will not give up a single right guaranteed under the Constitution.”
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“If you are too attached to your own thinking and how everything is done now, then nothing will change for the better.”
“Revolutions go not backward.”
“The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.”