Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTThe loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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 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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Go for the moon. If you don’t get it, you’ll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort.
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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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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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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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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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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
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We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.
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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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Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
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The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
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No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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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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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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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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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred.
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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 barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
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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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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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