The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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 school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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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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There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.
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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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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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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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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.
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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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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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Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
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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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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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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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