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.
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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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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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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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
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We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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What America needs now is a drink.
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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 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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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.
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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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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
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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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