We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
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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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.
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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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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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If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.
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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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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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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
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If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
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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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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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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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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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