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.
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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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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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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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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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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We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
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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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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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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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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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Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
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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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If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.
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