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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.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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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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I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
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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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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
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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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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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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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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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Fate Man Mindset Prison
Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
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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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What America needs now is a drink.
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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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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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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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