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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTPhysical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
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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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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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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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Calm seas never made a good sailor.
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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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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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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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