The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
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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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Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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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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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
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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.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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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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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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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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