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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTPresidents are selected, not elected.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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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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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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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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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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People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.
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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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We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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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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The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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