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. 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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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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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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I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.
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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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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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No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
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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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People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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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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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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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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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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