Calm seas never made a good sailor.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTWhen you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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What America needs now is a drink.
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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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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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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.
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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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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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We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
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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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I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
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If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.
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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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