Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
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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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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What America needs now is a drink.
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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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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred.
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We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.
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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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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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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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We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
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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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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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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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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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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
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Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
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We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.
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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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In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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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 best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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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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The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
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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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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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