In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTHere is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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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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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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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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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.
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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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We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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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 Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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