Peace, like charity, begins at home.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTCalm seas never made a good sailor.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
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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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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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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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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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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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Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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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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If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country… By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level – I mean the wages of decent living.
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