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The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

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I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.

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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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If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

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When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

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Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

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There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

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It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

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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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The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

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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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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.

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But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

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This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

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Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

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It is fun to be in the same decade with you.

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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

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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 our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

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I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

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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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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

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Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

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No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

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To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.

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Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.

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It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

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Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

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Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

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One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

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