Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTIn politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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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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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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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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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
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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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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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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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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.
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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.
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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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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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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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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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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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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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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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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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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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