Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTNo 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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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.
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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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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.
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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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