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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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" 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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" There are as many opinions as there are experts. "

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

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" Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion. "

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" A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. "

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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 is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose. "

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

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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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" The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself. "

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

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" It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. "

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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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" In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. "

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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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" I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. "

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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. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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 are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. "

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" Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. "

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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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" Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men. "

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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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