There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTA conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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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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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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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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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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 only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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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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In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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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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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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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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Go for the moon. If you don’t get it, you’ll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort.
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