There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTAll 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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The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
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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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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 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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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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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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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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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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We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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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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