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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTIt is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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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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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.
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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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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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What America needs now is a drink.
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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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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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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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