Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTBooks 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.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.
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If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.
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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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Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.
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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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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country… By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level – I mean the wages of decent living.
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