Presidents are selected, not elected.
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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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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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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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.
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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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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 know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.
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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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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.
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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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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 Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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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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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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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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