Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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About Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving US president and the only one to have served more than two terms. His first two terms were centered on combating the Great Depression, while his third and fourth focused on US involvement in World War II. A member of the Democratic Party, Roosevelt served in the New York State Senate from 1911 to 1913 and as the 44th governor of New York…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Franklin D. RooseveltProsperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
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I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
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.
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred …
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control…
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but th…
There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.