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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTNo government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
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We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
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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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We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.
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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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What America needs now is a drink.
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The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.
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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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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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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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If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.
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