Presidents are selected, not elected.
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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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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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.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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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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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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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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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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In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.
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Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
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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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Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter.
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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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