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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTGovernment 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.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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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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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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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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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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What America needs now is a drink.
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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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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter.
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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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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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