Go for the moon. If you don’t get it, you’ll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTLet us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.
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We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
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Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
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Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.
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No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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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.
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