We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTThe 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.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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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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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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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.
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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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That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.
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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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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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