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.
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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I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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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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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
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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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What America needs now is a drink.
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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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The motto of war is: “Let the strong survive; let the weak die.” The motto of peace is: “Let the strong help the weak to survive.”
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The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
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Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory… In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man’s freedom.
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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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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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Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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