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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTPhysical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
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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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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
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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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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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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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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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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.
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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.
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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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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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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
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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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