Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTThere should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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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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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 presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
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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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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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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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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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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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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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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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