Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTRemember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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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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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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The 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.
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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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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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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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We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
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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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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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The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
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The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party.
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Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.
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The motto of war is: “Let the strong survive; let the weak die.” The motto of peace is: “Let the strong help the weak to survive.”
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Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
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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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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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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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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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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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Go for the moon. If you don’t get it, you’ll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort.
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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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