The motto of war is: “Let the strong survive; let the weak die.” The motto of peace is: “Let the strong help the weak to survive.”
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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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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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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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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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.
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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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Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.
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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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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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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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