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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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01Undated

If you treat people right they will treat you right ... ninety percent of the time.

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02Undated

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

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03Undated

We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future.

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04Undated

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

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05Undated

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.

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06Undated

All agree that, the first responsibility for the alleviation of poverty and distress and for the care of the victims of the depression rests upon the locality — its individuals, organizations and Government. It rests, first of all, perhaps, upon the private agencies of philanthropy, secondly, other social organizations, and last, but not least, the Church. Yet all agree that to leave to the locality the entire responsibility would result in placing the heaviest burden in most cases upon those who are the least able to bear it. In other words, the communities that have the most difficult problem, like Detroit, would be the communities that would have to bear the heaviest of the burdens. And so the State should step in to equalize the burden by providing for a large portion of the care of the victims of poverty and by providing assistance and guidance for local communities. Above and beyond that duty of the States the national Government has a responsibility.

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07Undated

People are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds.

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08Undated

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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09Undated

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

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10Undated

There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.

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11Undated

I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

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12Undated

I venture the challenging statement that if American democracy ceases to move forward as a living force, seeking day and night by peaceful means to better the lot of our citizens, fascism will grow in strength in our land.

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13Undated

Some people can never understand that you have to wait, even for the best of things, until the right time comes.

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14Undated

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

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15Undated

To reach a port we must set sail –Sail, not tie at anchorSail, not drift.

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16Undated

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

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17Undated

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.

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18Undated

We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.

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19Undated

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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20Undated

One cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

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21Undated

I think we consider too much the luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

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22Undated

It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

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23Undated

If I were starting life over again I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference to almost any other. The general raising of standards of modern civilization among all groups of people during the past half-century would have been impossible without that spreading of the knowledge of higher standards by means of advertising.

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24Undated

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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