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. ROOSEVELTThat, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
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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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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.
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True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
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Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.
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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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The real safeguard of democracy 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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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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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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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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In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.
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