I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTReal estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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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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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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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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What America needs now is a drink.
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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 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.
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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
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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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No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
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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 truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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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 whole world is one neighborhood.
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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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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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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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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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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.
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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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