The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTA conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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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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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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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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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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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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What America needs now is a drink.
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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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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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The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
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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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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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The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.
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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
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An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as peas in the same pod.
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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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