Nobody 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.
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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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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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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In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
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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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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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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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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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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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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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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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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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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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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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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 only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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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 real safeguard of democracy is education.
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We 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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Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
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The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party.
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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 Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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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 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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We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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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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