Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTNever underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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.
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People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.
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We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
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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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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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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.
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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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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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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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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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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 only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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What America needs now is a drink.
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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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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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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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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.
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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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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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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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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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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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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.
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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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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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