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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTThe real safeguard of democracy is education.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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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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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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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
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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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In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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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.
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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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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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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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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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