Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
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 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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Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
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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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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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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 must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
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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.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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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.
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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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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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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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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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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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