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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTWhat America needs now is a drink.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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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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Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
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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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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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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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Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
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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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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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An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as peas in the same pod.
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Books 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.
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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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