The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTThe real safeguard of democracy is education.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.
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The 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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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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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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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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People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.
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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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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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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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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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We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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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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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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