In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTWe 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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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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There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.
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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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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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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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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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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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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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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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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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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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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 real safeguard of democracy is education.
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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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