In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTTo some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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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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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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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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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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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
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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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Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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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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