Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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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We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
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What America needs now is a drink.
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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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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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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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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.
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The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party.
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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.
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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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