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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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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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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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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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No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
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I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
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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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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
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Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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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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We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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Go for the moon. If you don’t get it, you’ll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort.
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