Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTRepetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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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People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.
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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
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What America needs now is a drink.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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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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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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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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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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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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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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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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There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.
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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.
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