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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTWe have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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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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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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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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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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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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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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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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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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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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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 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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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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