What America needs now is a drink.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTAgainst 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.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
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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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We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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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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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.
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I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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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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