The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTThe test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
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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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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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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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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
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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 school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
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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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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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What America needs now is a drink.
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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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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country… By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level – I mean the wages of decent living.
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