Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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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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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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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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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
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Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory… In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man’s freedom.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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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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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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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 Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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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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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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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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