The whole world is one neighborhood.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTRemember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.
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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 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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Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
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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.
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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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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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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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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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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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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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