When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTNo government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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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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What America needs now is a drink.
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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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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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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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I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
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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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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
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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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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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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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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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