We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTAn 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.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
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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 only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
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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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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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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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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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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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Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
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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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I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
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