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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTThe fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.
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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.
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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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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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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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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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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
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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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People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.
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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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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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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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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.
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