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" Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live. "
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Cannot
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" 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. "
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" Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion. "
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" Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play. "
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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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" Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle. "
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" To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift. "
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