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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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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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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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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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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 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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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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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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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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People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.
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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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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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The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
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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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Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.
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Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory… In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man’s freedom.
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