Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTIt is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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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 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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Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
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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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I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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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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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
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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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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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