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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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" A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether. "

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

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

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" When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him. "

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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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" 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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