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Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Bitter Maturity Myself Politics Thinking
It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

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The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Feeling Lonely Opinion Public Thinking World
We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Bad Economics Interest Moral
The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Administration Leadership Moral Office Place President
In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Choice Day Difficult Love Man Ourselves Path
Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

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Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory… In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man’s freedom.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

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We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Attack Design Justice Oppression Ourselves Remember
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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

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Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

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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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

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Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

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We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

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