There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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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If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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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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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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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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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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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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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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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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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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