There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTThose who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory… In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man’s freedom.
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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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The motto of war is: “Let the strong survive; let the weak die.” The motto of peace is: “Let the strong help the weak to survive.”
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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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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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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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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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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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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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The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
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