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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTBooks 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.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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All 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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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 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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In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
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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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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred.
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party.
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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
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