No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTThe loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.
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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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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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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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The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.
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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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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
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We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.
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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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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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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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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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