Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTPresidents are selected, not elected.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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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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We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
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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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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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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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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 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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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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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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The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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