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 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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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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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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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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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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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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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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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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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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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
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We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
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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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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
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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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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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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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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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Go for the moon. If you don’t get it, you’ll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort.
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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
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