The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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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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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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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All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.
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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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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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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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We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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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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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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The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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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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