Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTThe only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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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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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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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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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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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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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.”
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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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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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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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