What America needs now is a drink.
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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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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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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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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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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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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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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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
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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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Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
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Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
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The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
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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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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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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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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 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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In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
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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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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.
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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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Go for the moon. If you don’t get it, you’ll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort.
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