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.
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.
Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.
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 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.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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.
Calm seas never made a good sailor
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.
There are as many opinions as there are experts.
It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.
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."
Presidents are selected, not elected.
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.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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