To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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 whole world is one neighborhood.
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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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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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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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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
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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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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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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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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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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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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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