We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTLet us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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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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True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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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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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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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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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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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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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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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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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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