Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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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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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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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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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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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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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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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The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
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Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
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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 real safeguard of democracy is education.
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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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True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
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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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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 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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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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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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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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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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