The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTDemocracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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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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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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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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Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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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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No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country… By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level – I mean the wages of decent living.
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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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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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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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Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
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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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