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If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Alien Country Democracy Forget Government Power Rule Vote
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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Country Employment Rich Social Order Wasted Time
The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Administration Leadership Moral Office Place President
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Failure Method Try
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Freedom Man Philosophy Pursue Truth
Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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Beginning Charity Home Peace
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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Ancient Country Government Principle Race
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
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Absence Courage Fear Important
Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.
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Business Inspirational Way Work
Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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Necessary Principle Rule Sacred
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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Death Destruction Force Naked Possible Rule War
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Destiny General Government Help Insistence
The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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Democracy Education Reality Safety
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Accident Planning Politics Way
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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

People Right Vote Way Yourself
In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Democracy Government Master Ourselves People Service