Calm seas never made a good sailor.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTWhen you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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What America needs now is a drink.
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We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.
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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.
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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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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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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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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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We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
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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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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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