Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
Franklin D. RooseveltIn vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike.
Franklin D. RooseveltThe winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men.
Franklin D. RooseveltThe barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
Franklin D. Roosevelt