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Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

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  • Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because I love you.
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  • I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
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  • A dog will look up on you; a cat will look down on you; however, a pig will see you eye to eye and know it has found an equal.
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  • Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.
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  • Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination.
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  • We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
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  • You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and fierce you cannot hurt the world, or even seriously distress her.
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  • Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
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  • He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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  • The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
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  • It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.
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  • Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
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  • Happiness is in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
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  • The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter.
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  • More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.
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  • A joke is a very serious thing.
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  • Success is never final.
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  • In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
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  • All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
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  • Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
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  • Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
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  • Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
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  • There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
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  • Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
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  • There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
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