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.
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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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
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We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.
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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
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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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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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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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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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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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
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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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That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.
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There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.
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Against 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.
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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 truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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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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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.
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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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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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