The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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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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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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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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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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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People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.
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Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
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The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.
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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
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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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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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Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter.
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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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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