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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. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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" This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny. "

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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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" Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are. "

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" More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments. "

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

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" We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power. "

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" Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter. "

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" If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time. "

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" War is a contagion. "

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" I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues. "

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

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" Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples. "

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" Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment. "

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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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" Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country. "

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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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" It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach. "

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

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" The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. "

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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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" In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down. "

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" A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. "

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" If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace. "

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" There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny. "

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

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" I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made. "

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