When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTCalm seas never made a good sailor.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.
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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 test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
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In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.
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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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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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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party.
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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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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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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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