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.”
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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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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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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All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.
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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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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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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
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That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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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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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 Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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