The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTPeople acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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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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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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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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An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as peas in the same pod.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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The motto of war is: “Let the strong survive; let the weak die.” The motto of peace is: “Let the strong help the weak to survive.”
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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country… By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level – I mean the wages of decent living.
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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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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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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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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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