Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTMen are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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 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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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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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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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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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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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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All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.
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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 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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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.
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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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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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What America needs now is a drink.
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