We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTNever underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter.
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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
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Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
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I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
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An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as peas in the same pod.
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We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.
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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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