Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTWe know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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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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Go for the moon. If you don’t get it, you’ll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort.
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There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.
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The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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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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We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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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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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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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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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.
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