The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTWe know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
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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 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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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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We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.
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Go for the moon. If you don’t get it, you’ll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort.
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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
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We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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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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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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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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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.
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