It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTThat, 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 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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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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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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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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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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The 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 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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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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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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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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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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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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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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