To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTDo Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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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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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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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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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 real safeguard of democracy is education.
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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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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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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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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as peas in the same pod.
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