In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTRemember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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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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The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
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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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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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What America needs now is a drink.
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
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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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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.
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The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.
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Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter.
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No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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