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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTWe 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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We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
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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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
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The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
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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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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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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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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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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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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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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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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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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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