Those who have long enjoyed such privleges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotations
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The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.
Be sincere be brief be seated.
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.
N.B. Fear itself. See also H. D. Thoreau.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed it must be achieved.
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.
Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live on in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
The only thing to fear is fear itself.
The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never learned to walk.
There is nothing to fear but fear itself.
As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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.
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.
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.