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The study of this Book in your Bible classes is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience.
Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And "emergency" became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains.
It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of these men who in adversity and in suffering through the darkest hour of our history held faithful to an ideal. Here men endured that a nation might live.
While I can make no claim for having introduced the term "rugged individualism," I should be proud to have invented it. It has been used by American leaders for over a half-century in eulogy of those God-fearing men and women of honesty whose stamina and character and fearless assertion of rights led them to make their own way in life.
The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible for these fundamentals is a necessity of American life.
We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.
In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.
Presidents cannot always kick evil-minded persons out of the front door. Such persons are often selected by the electors to represent them.
In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.
The supreme purpose of history is a better world.
A splendid storehouse of integrity and freedom has been bequeathed to us by our forefathers. In this day of confusion, of peril to liberty, our high duty is to see that this storehouse is not robbed of its contents.
New discoveries in science and their flow of new inventions will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.
The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.
Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.
Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.
The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.
If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.
I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
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