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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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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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Immigration Myself Remember Revolution Yourself
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.
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Ability Equality Existence Opportunity Willing
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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Destiny General Government Help Insistence
The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
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Administration Leadership Moral Office Place President
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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Accident Planning Politics Way
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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Children Future Ourselves Preparation
The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party.
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Democracy Liberty Live Party Support
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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Existence Freedom Independence Job People Security True
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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Clear Eyes Forest Government Pollution School
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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Business Existence Live Myself Pay
We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.
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Beware Man Order Special Wings
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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Freedom Man Philosophy Pursue Truth
Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.
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Business Inspirational Way Work
I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
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Bitter Maturity Myself Politics Thinking
The whole world is one neighborhood.
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Neighbor Perspective Togetherness World
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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Oneself Stand Still Way
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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Lying Repetition Transformation Truth
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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Death Destruction Force Naked Possible Rule War
I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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Business Complete Government Myself Separate
There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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Expert Number Opinion
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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Control Essence Government Power Privacy
To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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Expectation Generation Material Wealth
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
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Control Enough Government Liberty Maintain Protection Strong
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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Conservation Goodness Legs Perfection Walk
Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
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Death Enjoyment Man Privilege Win
Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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Necessary Principle Rule Sacred
No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.
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Country Employment Rich Social Order Wasted Time

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