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. ROOSEVELTBooks 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.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
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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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What America needs now is a drink.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.
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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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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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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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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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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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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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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.
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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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