Real 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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTHere is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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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 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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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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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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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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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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We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.
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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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That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.
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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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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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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 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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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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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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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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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 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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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.
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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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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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