There are as many opinions as there are experts.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTIn these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.
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 Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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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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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 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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An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as peas in the same pod.
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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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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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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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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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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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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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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.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.
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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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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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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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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
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