It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTThe presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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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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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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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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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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No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country… By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level – I mean the wages of decent living.
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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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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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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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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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