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The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.
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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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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country… By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level – I mean the wages of decent living.
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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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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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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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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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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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The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
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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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Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
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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.
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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
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