"I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."
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"Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education."
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"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
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"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment."
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"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."
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