Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy

Quote by Franklin D Roosevelt

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An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two...

An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two...

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of...

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of...

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political...

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political...

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial...

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial...

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class...

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class...

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else...

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else...

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of...

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of...

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned...

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned...

Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives...

Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives...

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined...

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined...

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us....

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us....

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

The school is that last expenditure upon which Americans should be willing to economize

The school is that last expenditure upon which Americans should be willing to economize

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded...

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded...

An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a...

An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a...

Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves...

Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves...

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions,...

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions,...