Peace, like charity, begins at home.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTThe 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.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
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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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People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.
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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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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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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 an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
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The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.
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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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