Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTHitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
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In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.
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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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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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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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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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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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