We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTWe must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
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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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If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.
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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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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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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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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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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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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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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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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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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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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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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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The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
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