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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTNo government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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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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In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.
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What America needs now is a drink.
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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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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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The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
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Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
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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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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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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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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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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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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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