We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTThe fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.
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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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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
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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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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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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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In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.
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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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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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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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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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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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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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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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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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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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It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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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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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
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