No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTFreedom 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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We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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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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In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.
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We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.
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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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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
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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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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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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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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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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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The motto of war is: “Let the strong survive; let the weak die.” The motto of peace is: “Let the strong help the weak to survive.”
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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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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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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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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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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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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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