Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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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We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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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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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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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.
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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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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The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
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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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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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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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I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
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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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The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
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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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