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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTFreedom 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.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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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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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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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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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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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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Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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