Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTThere are as many opinions as there are experts.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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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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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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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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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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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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The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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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 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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The motto of war is: “Let the strong survive; let the weak die.” The motto of peace is: “Let the strong help the weak to survive.”
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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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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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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.
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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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