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Calm seas never made a good sailor.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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Failure Method Try
Presidents are selected, not elected.
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Election Politics President Selection
The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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Economice School Willing
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
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Absence Courage Fear Important
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
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Existence Freedom Independence Job People Security True
What America needs now is a drink.
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Country Drink Need One Liner
We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
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Believe Death Deep Freedom Live Ourselves
We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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Bad Economics Interest Moral
The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred.
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Hate Love Pieces Strong Value Willing
Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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Play Remember Worth Yourself
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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Death Dedication Fire Freedom Kill Man People Weapon
There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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Expert Number Opinion
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
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Empty Failure Human Loud Stomach Unfortunate
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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Ability Equality Existence Opportunity Willing
Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
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Death Enjoyment Man Privilege Win
Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
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Force Impact Physical Spiritual Strength
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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Achievement Creativity Effort Moon Possession Stardom
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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Fate Man Mindset Prison
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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Country Different Direction Election Goal Name Principle
There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.
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Country Hate Man Occupation People President
The whole world is one neighborhood.
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Neighbor Perspective Togetherness World
To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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Expectation Generation Material Wealth
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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Country Employment Rich Social Order Wasted Time
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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Conservation Goodness Legs Perfection Walk
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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Abundance Enough Progress Share Test
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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Children Future Ourselves Preparation
We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
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Attack Design Justice Oppression Ourselves Remember

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