We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.
We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities.
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.
Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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.
Calm seas never made a good sailor
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
The whole world is one neighborhood.
The motto of war is: "Let the strong survive; let the weak die." The motto of peace is: "Let the strong help the weak to survive."
Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.
Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.
Freedom of the press is essential to the preservation of a democracy; but there is a difference between freedom and license. Editorialists who tell downright lies in order to advance their own agendas do more to discredit the press than all the censors in the world.
We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
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