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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTNo 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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We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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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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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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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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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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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.
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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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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
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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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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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