Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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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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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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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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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People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.
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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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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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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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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.
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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.
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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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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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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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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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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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