Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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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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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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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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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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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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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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What America needs now is a drink.
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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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The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
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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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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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