Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTWe 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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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.
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We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.
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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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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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Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
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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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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.
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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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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
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The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
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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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The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
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