Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTWe are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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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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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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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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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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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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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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People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.
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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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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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