Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTNo democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
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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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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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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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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
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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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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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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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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.
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In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
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