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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTThe 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.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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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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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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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 presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
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The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
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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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Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter.
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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
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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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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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