To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTReal 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.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
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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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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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It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
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We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
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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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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.
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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 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 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 one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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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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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country… By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level – I mean the wages of decent living.
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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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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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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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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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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 have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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