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Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion."

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"Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion."

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"Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations."

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"Only the Prince of Peace gives peace."

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"There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion."

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"There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't."

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"A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes."

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"A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory."

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"The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes."

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"Keep your hope in the Lord."

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"Religion is a cultural relic inherited from ancient civilizations that doctrinal influence persists globally in modern times. Religious people rely upon their notional belief in the primal innocence of human beings in order to support the abstract supposition of inherently benevolent God guiding human souls."

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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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"Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle."
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"If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come."
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"Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples."
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"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."
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"I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making."
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"But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings."
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"Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection."
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"No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal."
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"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."
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