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. ROOSEVELTWe know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
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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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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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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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No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country… By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level – I mean the wages of decent living.
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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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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
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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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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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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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People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.
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No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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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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