The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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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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Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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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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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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If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.
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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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I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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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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All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.
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The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.
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