It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTAn 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.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.
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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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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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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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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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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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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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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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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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