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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Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us...

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us...

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...

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...

To stand upon ramparts and die for our principles is heroic, but to sally forth...

To stand upon ramparts and die for our principles is heroic, but to sally forth...

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.

A nation, like a person, has a mind - a mind that must be kept...

A nation, like a person, has a mind - a mind that must be kept...

Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch.

Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of...

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of...

There is nothing to fear but fear itself.

There is nothing to fear but fear itself.

Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the...

Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the...

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than...

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than...

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned...

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned...

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land,...

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land,...

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay...

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay...

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

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

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

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes......

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes......

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that...

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that...