The real safeguard of democracy is education.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTBe sincere; be brief; be seated.
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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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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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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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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 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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Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
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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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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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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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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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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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