Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTWhat America needs now is a drink.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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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 school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party.
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We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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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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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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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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In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
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Go for the moon. If you don’t get it, you’ll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort.
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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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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