All Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
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There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.
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The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.
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The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.
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The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
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I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
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The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.
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Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
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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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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
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