Presidents are selected, not elected.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTThe 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.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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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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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.
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Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
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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.
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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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No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.
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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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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 principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.
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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.
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An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as peas in the same pod.
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If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.
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