Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTWe must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
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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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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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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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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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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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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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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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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred.
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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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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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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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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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The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
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