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.
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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What America needs now is a drink.
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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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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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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 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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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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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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No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.
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The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.
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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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We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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