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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTMen are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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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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In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.
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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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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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We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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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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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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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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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.
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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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Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
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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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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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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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Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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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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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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