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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTPhysical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
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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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If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.
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Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.
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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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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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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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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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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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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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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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The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
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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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All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.
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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.
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Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
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I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
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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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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
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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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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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