The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
From Franklin D. Roosevelt
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.
To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.
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.
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.
It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.
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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