American - President | January 30, 1882 - April 12, 1945
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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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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We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
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I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.
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The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
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Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
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The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
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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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