A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never learned to walk.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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War is a contagion.
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More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.
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In looking back over the college careers of those who for various reasons have been prominent in undergraduate life ... one cannot help notici...
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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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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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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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This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
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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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It is fun to be in the same decade with you.
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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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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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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
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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 limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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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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The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
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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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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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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
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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 overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities—a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
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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.
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We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.
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