No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTIn politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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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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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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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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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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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
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There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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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 know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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