All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTWe know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.
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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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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.
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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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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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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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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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No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country… By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level – I mean the wages of decent living.
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Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred.
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We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.
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In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
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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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Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.
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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory… In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man’s freedom.
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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.
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If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
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