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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTNobody 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.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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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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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.
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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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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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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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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.
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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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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
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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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We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.
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