The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTThe barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
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The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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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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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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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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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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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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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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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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Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
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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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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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What America needs now is a drink.
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