A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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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.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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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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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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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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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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True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.
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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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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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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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Go for the moon. If you don’t get it, you’ll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort.
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