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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTThose who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
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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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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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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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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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All 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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An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as peas in the same pod.
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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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In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
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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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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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We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.
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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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