The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTCalm seas never made a good sailor.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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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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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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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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Go for the moon. If you don’t get it, you’ll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort.
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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.
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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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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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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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