It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTThe loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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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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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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Books 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.
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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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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The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.
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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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We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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The motto of war is: “Let the strong survive; let the weak die.” The motto of peace is: “Let the strong help the weak to survive.”
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Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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