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" Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged. "
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Us
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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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" A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. "
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" If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time. "
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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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" 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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" We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out. "
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" A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. "
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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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" 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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" Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. "
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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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" A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. "
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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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" 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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Better
World
" 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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Nature
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" The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea. "
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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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