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If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We 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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Ability Equality Existence Opportunity Willing
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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Accident Planning Politics Way
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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Existence Freedom Independence Job People Security True
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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Country Different Direction Election Goal Name Principle
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
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Choice Democracy Education Expression Safety Success
The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.
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Country Fate Greatness Man Personality Principle
Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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Necessary Principle Rule Sacred
It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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Character Democracy Freedom Oneself Unity
It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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Better Choice Eat Option Word
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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Death Destruction Force Naked Possible Rule War
There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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Expert Number Opinion
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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Ancient Country Government Principle Race
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
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Absence Courage Fear Important
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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Conservation Goodness Legs Perfection Walk
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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Country Employment Rich Social Order Wasted Time
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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Civilization Cultivation Live Peace Science Survive Togetherness World