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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTTrue 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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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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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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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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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.
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What America needs now is a drink.
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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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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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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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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 presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
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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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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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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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