We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTTo some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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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 real safeguard of democracy is education.
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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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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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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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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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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 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 have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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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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What America needs now is a drink.
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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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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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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.
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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 barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
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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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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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If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.
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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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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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