Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTThe school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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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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Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.
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Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on 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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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 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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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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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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.
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It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
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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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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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