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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTIt is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.
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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 real safeguard of democracy is education.
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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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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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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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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 best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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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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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
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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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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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