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Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. ~  ~ In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
~ ~ In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. ~ ~ In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. ~ ~ Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live. ~ ~ 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. ~ ~ The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart. ~ ~ Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society. ~ ~ Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. ~ ~ The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of
those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who
have little. ~ ~ 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 ~ ~ A nation, like a person, has a mind - a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself, that understands the hopes and needs of its neighbors - all the other nations that live within the narrowing circle of the world ~ ~ No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country ~ ~ More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments. ~ ~ We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization ~ |
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