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Franklin D. Roosevelt has 357 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there.
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My own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism.
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The liberal party is a party which believes that, as new conditions an problems arise beyond the power of men and women…
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Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.
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For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government . . . costs too much.…
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Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories,…
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To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in…
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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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I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.
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All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over…
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We have nothing to fear but fear itself.
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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…
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Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's…
— J. William Fulbright
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Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts sweep away…
— Charles W. Chesnutt
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In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people…
— Betsy Lerner
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The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we…
— Ernest Becker
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The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.
— Charles Mengel Allen
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A wise Government seeks to provide the opportunity through which the best of individual achievement can be obtained, while at the same…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.
— Isaac Asimov
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We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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