It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTThere are as many opinions as there are experts.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
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Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.
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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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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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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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We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.
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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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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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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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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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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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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
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