Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTThe presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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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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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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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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We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
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The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
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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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Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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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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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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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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What America needs now is a drink.
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