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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If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.
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The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.
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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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I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
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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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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
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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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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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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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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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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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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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We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.
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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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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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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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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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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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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 whole world is one neighborhood.
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