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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTThe fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
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The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
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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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What America needs now is a drink.
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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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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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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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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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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 held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
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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 know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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