The whole world is one neighborhood.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTGo 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.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
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That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.
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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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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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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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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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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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The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
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We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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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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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 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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Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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