Franklin D. Roosevelt

(20 votes)   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.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
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(12 votes)   Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.

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(11 votes)   If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

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(309 votes)   The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Franklin D. Roosevelt
1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA

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(242 votes)   Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrations and revolutionists.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA

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(227 votes)   I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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(147 votes)   A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA

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(132 votes)   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.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA

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(129 votes)   These unhappy times call for the building of plans that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA

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(128 votes)   Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA

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(122 votes)   Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA

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(119 votes)   I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA

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(115 votes)   The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of the minority, and for their own selfish purpose or advancement, hamper or oppress that minority, or debar them in any way from equal privileges and equal rights -- that moment will mark the failure of our constitutional system.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA

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(114 votes)   If we can ''boondoggle'' ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA

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(112 votes)   But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA

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