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We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
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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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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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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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We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
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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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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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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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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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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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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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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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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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Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.
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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.
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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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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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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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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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