Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTMen are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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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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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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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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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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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
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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 best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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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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