The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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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We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
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We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred.
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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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No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.
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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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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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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.
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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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The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
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Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter.
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