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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTPeople acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.
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If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
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We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
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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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If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.
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The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.
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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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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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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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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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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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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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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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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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