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.
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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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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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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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country… By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level – I mean the wages of decent living.
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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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Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
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True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
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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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Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
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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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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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The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.
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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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