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The motto of war is: “Let the strong survive; let the weak die.” The motto of peace is: “Let the strong help the weak to survive.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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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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I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
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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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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 motto of war is: “Let the strong survive; let the weak die.” The motto of peace is: “Let the strong help the weak to survive.”
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Death Peace Strong Survive War Weakness
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
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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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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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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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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.
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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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In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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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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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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Character Democracy Freedom Oneself Unity
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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The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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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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