Great Democratic Quotes

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

“My own sympathy has always been with the little fellow, the man without advantages.”

“Let every nation know whether it wishes us well or ill that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to asure the survival and the success of liberty.”

“Very often a lack of jobs and money is not the cause of poverty, but the symptom. The cause may lie deeper — in our failure to give our fellow citizens a fair chance to develop their own capacities, in a lack of education and training, in a lack of medical care and housing, in a lack of decent communities in which to live and bring up their children.”

“Whether the borders that divide us are picket fences or national  boundaries, we are all neighbors in a global community.”

“We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity mattes more.”

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”

“Nothing will fundamentally change.”

One of these is not like the others.

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