We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTWe must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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What America needs now is a drink.
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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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People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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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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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
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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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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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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
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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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