In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTRules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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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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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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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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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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
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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 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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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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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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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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
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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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Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
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