Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTNobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
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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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The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.
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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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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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The 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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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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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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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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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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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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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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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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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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