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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.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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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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If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.
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There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.
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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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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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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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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
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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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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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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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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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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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