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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

People Right Vote Way Yourself
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Belief Better Beyond Hope Horizon World
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Immigration Myself Remember Revolution Yourself
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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Death Destruction Force Naked Possible Rule War
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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Existence Freedom Independence Job People Security True
The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Country Fate Greatness Man Personality Principle
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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Country Exception Flower People
No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Acceptance Democracy Fundamental Minority Recognition Right Survive
Calm seas never made a good sailor.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Calm Hard Time Inspirational Sea
Peace, like charity, begins at home.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Beginning Charity Home Peace
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Choice Democracy Education Expression Safety Success
If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Generosity Karma Kindness People Right Time Yourself
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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Clear Eyes Forest Government Pollution School
We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Attack Design Justice Oppression Ourselves Remember
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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Cruelty Freedom Human Kindness Nation People Soft Tough Weakness
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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Control Enough Government Liberty Maintain Protection Strong