A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTThe truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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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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We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.
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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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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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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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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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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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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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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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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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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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