A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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A nation that destroys it's soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
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Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
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Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
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He [Somoza] may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch
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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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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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I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
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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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I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
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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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If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.
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In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.
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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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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
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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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It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.
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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.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
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One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... ; If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.
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Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
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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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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.
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Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
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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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The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes strong than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.
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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.
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The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.
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There is nothing to fear but fear itself.
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To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
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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.
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We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
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We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it is bad economics.
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What this country needs is a good five cent cigar.
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When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
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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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