Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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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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Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.
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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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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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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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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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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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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.
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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
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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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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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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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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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