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.
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 limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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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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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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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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What America needs now is a drink.
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Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
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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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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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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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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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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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