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The real safeguard of democracy is education.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
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Death Enjoyment Man Privilege Win
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
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Absence Courage Fear Important
The real safeguard of democracy is education.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Democracy Education Reality Safety
Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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Play Remember Worth Yourself
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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Country Different Direction Election Goal Name Principle
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
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Cruelty Freedom Human Kindness Nation People Soft Tough Weakness
It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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Better Choice Eat Option Word
Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.
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Estate Investment Lost Management Pay Reality Safety Steal World
Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory… In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man’s freedom.
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Death Dedication Fire Freedom Kill Man People Weapon
Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Build Forget Himself Palace
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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Failure Method Try
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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Country Employment Rich Social Order Wasted Time
In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
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Democracy Government Master Ourselves People Service
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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Conservation Goodness Legs Perfection Walk
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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Alien Country Democracy Forget Government Power Rule Vote
No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
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Acceptance Democracy Fundamental Minority Recognition Right Survive

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