The real safeguard of democracy is education.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTWe, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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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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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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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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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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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
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If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
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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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If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.
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