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The real safeguard of democracy is education.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Accident Planning Politics Way
Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Ability Myself Pay Principle
The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Economice School Willing
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Destiny General Government Help Insistence
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Himself Poison Yourself
There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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Expert Number Opinion
The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Best Customer Paid Work
Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory… In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man’s freedom.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Death Dedication Fire Freedom Kill Man People Weapon
The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Country Fate Greatness Man Personality Principle
The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Barrier Doubt Existence Purity Simplicity Success
The motto of war is: “Let the strong survive; let the weak die.” The motto of peace is: “Let the strong help the weak to survive.”
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Death Peace Strong Survive War Weakness
The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Administration Leadership Moral Office Place President
I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Bitter Maturity Myself Politics Thinking
We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Beware Man Order Special Wings
Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Clear Eyes Forest Government Pollution School
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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Civilization Cultivation Live Peace Science Survive Togetherness World

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