In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTThe school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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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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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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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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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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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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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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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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We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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