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.
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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Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
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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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People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.
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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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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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We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
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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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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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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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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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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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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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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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Go for the moon. If you don’t get it, you’ll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort.
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We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.
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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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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
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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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The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
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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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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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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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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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The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party.
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