It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTWe know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.
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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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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
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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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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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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.
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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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Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
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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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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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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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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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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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