Calm seas never made a good sailor.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTTrue 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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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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No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country… By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level – I mean the wages of decent living.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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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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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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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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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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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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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 are as many opinions as there are experts.
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We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
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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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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 truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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