The motto of war is: “Let the strong survive; let the weak die.” The motto of peace is: “Let the strong help the weak to survive.”
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTCalm seas never made a good sailor.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as peas in the same pod.
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Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.
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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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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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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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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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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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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.
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