It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
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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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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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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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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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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People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.
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What America needs now is a drink.
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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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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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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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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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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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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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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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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