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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.
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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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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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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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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
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No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.
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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.
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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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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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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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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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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Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
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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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We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
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The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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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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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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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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