We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.
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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What America needs now is a drink.
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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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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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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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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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We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as peas in the same pod.
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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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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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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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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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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
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