“Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.”
Religion“No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.”
Government“Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.”
Religion“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.”
Education“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.”
History“Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.”
Faith“The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.”
Government“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.”
Best“If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.”
Work“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.”
Government“War is a contagion.”
War“The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.”
Men“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.”
Change“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.”
Art“If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.”
Time“I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.”
Good“We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.”
Nature“There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.”
Good“We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.”
Hope“No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.”
Government“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.”
Freedom“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.”
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