The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTCourage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.
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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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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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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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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
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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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We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
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We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.
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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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We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
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