Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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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No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country… By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level – I mean the wages of decent living.
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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 value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred.
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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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Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
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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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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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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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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
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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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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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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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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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