Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory… In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man’s freedom.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTWe have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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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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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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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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In 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.
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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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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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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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No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.
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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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I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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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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