Peace, like charity, begins at home.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTIt is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.
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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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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
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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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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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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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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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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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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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People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.
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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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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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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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