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.
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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Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory… In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man’s freedom.
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Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
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What America needs now is a drink.
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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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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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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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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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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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All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.
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We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
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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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