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. ROOSEVELTWe know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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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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It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
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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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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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Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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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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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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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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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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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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