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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Democracy Government Master Ourselves People Service
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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Civilization Cultivation Live Peace Science Survive Togetherness World
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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Alien Forget Government Ourselves Power
Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory… In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man’s freedom.
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Death Dedication Fire Freedom Kill Man People Weapon
The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
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Administration Leadership Moral Office Place President
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
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Abundance Enough Progress Share Test
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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Business Existence Live Myself Pay
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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Immigration Myself Remember Revolution Yourself
If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.
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Generosity Karma Kindness People Right Time Yourself
It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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Better Choice Eat Option Word
I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Bitter Maturity Myself Politics Thinking
Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Clear Eyes Forest Government Pollution School
People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.
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Accomplishment Act Alone Hope People Togetherness
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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Existence Freedom Independence Job People Security True
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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

People Right Vote Way Yourself
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
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Himself Poison Yourself
The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred.
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Hate Love Pieces Strong Value Willing
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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Acceptance Democracy Fundamental Minority Recognition Right Survive
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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Accident Planning Politics Way
Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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Calm Hard Time Inspirational Sea
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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Challenge Conscience Democracy Freedom Fundamental Success
I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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Business Complete Government Myself Separate
In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.
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Choice Day Difficult Love Man Ourselves Path
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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Destiny General Government Help Insistence
We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Ability Equality Existence Opportunity Willing
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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Feeling Lonely Opinion Public Thinking World
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Fear Philosophy

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