
Our duty, our opportunity, is to fulfill the rights of all men all over our land, not only because we shall be judged more by what we do at home than what we preach abroad, but because it is right.
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Our duty, our opportunity, is to fulfill the rights of all men all over our land, not only because we shall be judged more by what we do at home than what we preach abroad, but because it is right.

So long as I am President, I intend to honor the mandate of the Constitution that I am sworn to uphold.

We must concern ourselves with the level of their income.

They may talk of changing the world, but what they mean to change is America first.

We have work to do, not work to quit.

Well, on this I refuse to turn and run.

I call upon you, here and now, to begin this hour to start fighting in order to save it.

In 1914 the first old-age pension was established in a State where character has not been collectivized by compassion - the great State of Arizona.

We must make sure that they can meet their health needs.

You must follow a course of compassion and courage.

Hence from Plymouth Rock until this day, Americans have been careful about the welfare of their fellow man.

A nation so strong and free as ours can tolerate the widest diversity of opinion and belief, and it actually can be made stronger by full and responsible discussion.

We will not return to declining employment at home and declining prestige abroad.

We will keep moving toward a nation where every man can find work and a fair reward for his labor, where the old can live in decency and the poor can reach for dignity, where no man suffers from fear or hatred and where every man can seek…

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Our tax cut, which you helped us pass through the Congress, was a part of this policy.

Next year we are going to cut excise taxes.

And I have no doubt what the steelworkers will do about it.