Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTNo government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.
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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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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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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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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.
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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter.
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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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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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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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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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Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
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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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