Peace, like charity, begins at home.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTThe 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.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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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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We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.
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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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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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We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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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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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.
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If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.
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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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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.
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Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
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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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Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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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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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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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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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
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