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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there.
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My own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism.
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The liberal party is a party which believes that, as new conditions an problems arise beyond the power of men and women…
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Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.
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For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government . . . costs too much.…
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Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories,…
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To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in…
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We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
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I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.
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All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over…
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We have nothing to fear but fear itself.
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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on…
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My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something…
— Cleveland Abbe
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I love my mother, but there has been, ever since my boyhood, a sort of coldness of intercourse between us, such as…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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I have watched the river and the sea for a lifetime. I have seen rivers rob soil from the roots of trees…
— Keri Hulme
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I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that…
— George Takei
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All my boyhood, all I ever wanted was to be loved.
— Norman Wisdom
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My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so…
— James Weldon Johnson
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I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I…
— Robert Vaughn
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My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere,
— Herbert Hoover
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I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood.
— Henry David Thoreau
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You sometimes find something good in the lunatic fringe. In fact, we have got as part of our social and economic government…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my…
— George Orwell
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