Calm seas never made a good sailor.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTIt is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
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Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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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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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
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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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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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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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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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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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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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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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Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.
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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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