We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTDemocracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred.
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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
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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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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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We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
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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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What America needs now is a drink.
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In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.
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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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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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True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
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