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Franklin D. Roosevelt has 357 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there.
• My own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism.
• The liberal party is a party which believes that, as new conditions an problems arise beyond the power of men and women…
• Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.
• For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government . . . costs too much.…
• Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories,…
• To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in…
• We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
• I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.
• 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…
• We have nothing to fear but fear itself.
• 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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