Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTThose who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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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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Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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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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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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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
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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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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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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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