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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.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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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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We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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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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Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.
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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 loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.
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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
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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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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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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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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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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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