Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTRepetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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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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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.
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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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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
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The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
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We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.
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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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What America needs now is a drink.
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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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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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