When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTNever underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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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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Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
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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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We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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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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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.”
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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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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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
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