Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTThe 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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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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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 whole world is one neighborhood.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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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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The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.
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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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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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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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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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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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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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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
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Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
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Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
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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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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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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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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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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 presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
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