The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTWe have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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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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Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
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It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
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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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In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.
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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.
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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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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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What America needs now is a drink.
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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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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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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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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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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 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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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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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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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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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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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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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.
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