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.
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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We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.
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Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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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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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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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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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party.
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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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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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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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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
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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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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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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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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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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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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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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 test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
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