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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
  - Franklin D. Roosevelt more quotations on [Education]
The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men.
  - Franklin D. Roosevelt more quotations on [America]
Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
  - Franklin D. Roosevelt more quotations on [Government]
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
  - Franklin D. Roosevelt more quotations on [Freedom]
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
  - Franklin D. Roosevelt more quotations on [Politics]
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
  - Franklin D. Roosevelt more quotations on [Speeches]
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
  - Franklin D. Roosevelt more quotations on [Community]
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
  - Franklin D. Roosevelt more quotations on [Money]
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
  - Franklin D. Roosevelt more quotations on [Money]
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
  - Franklin D. Roosevelt more quotations on [Perseverance]
Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.
  - Franklin D. Roosevelt more quotations on [Taxes]
Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.
  - Franklin D. Roosevelt more quotations on [Taxes]
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
  - Franklin D. Roosevelt more quotations on [Lies]
Men are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds.
  - Franklin D. Roosevelt more quotations on [Mind] [Chance]
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