It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTCalm seas never made a good sailor.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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 whole world is one neighborhood.
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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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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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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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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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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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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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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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Go for the moon. If you don’t get it, you’ll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort.
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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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