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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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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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Neighbor Perspective Togetherness World
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
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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Doubt Limitation Ourselves
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.
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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
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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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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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Destroy Nation Patriotic
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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The 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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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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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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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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What America needs now is a drink.
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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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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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Ability Myself Pay Principle

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