Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTAll 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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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party.
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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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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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In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
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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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We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
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No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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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 Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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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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