Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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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.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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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 are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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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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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.
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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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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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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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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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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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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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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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The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.
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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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