"In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the good."
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"Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says: it can't be done."
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"Do something everyday that scares you."
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"Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us love and unquestioned loyalty to the limit of their ability. I doubt, however, if it is good for us to feel assured of this without the accompanying obligation of having to justify this devotion by our behavior."
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"It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work."
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"We don't become heroes overnight." - One step at a time, eventually discovering we have the strength to stare it down."
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"Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important."
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"The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat."
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"At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want... for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war."
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"A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest."
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"To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start."
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"I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them."
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"Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation."
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"There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor."
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"Franklin's illness...gave him strength and courage he had not had before. He had to think out the fundamentals of living and learn the greatest of all lessons - infinite patience and never ending persistence."
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"Of course Mahatma Gandhi you might say did not have so much physical vigor but he certainly seemed to have extraordinary resistance, which perhaps is rather different from physical vigor."
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"If you take stands in any way and people feel that you have any success in - a following, why those who disagree with you are going to feel very strongly about it."
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"The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State."
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"The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government."
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"Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay."
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