A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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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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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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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I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
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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.
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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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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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
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We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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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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We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
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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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The motto of war is: “Let the strong survive; let the weak die.” The motto of peace is: “Let the strong help the weak to survive.”
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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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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
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