Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTRepetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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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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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 truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
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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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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
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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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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.
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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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We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
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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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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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