When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTDo Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.
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We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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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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We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.
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The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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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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We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.
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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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Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
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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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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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