We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
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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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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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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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
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The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
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Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
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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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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory… In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man’s freedom.
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The motto of war is: “Let the strong survive; let the weak die.” The motto of peace is: “Let the strong help the weak to survive.”
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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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