I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTThe Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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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.
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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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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
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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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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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If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
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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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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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