The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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 only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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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.
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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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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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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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The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
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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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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory… In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man’s freedom.
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