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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTIt is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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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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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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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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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
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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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Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
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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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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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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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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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We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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