Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTIt is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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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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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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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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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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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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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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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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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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We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
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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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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
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