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In the formative days of the Republic, the directing influence the Bible exercised upon the fathers of the Nation is conspicuously evident ... -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it and to avoid placing onerous burdens upon the mass of our people. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for either art or artists to survive. Crush individuality in society and you crush art as well. Nourish the conditions of a free life and you nourish the arts, too. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Presidents are selected, not elected. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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All of us in all the Americas will be living at the point of a gun. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Do not confuse objectives with methods. When the nation becomes substantially united in favor of planning the broad objectives of civilization, then true leadership must unite thought behind definite methods. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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To win this war, we have been forced into a strategic compromise which will most certainly offend the Russians. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A nation, like a person, has a mind - a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself, that understands the hopes and needs of its neighbors - all the other nations that live within the narrowing circle of the world -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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You are, I am sure, aware that genuine popular support in the United States is required to carry out any Government policy, foreign or domestic. The American people make up their own minds and no governmental action can change it. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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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. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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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. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Preparation for defense is an inalienable prerogative of a sovereign state. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Organized money hates me
and I welcome their hatred! -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Our Constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement without loss of essential form. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Economic diseases are highly communicable. It follows therefore that the economic health of every country is a proper matter of concern to all its neighbors, near or distant. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We are not isolationists except in so far as we seek to isolate ourselves completely from war. Yet we must remember that so long as war exists on earth there will be some danger that even the Nation which most ardently desires peace may be drawn into war. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The public schools shall be free from sectarian influences and, above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I hope that you have re-read the Constitution of the United States in these past few weeks. Like the Bible, it ought to be read again and again. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that
men have died to win them.
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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The most difficult place in the world to get a clear and open perspective of the country as a whole is Washington. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed by themselves against abuse of freedom. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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There is one front and one battle where everyone in the United States-every man, woman, and child-is in action, and will be privileged to remain in action throughout this war. That front is right here at home, in our daily lives, and in our daily tasks. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the germs of another world war will remain as a constant threat to mankind. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A program whose basic thesis is, not that the system of free enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that it has not yet been tried! -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The chief problem is, of course, whether the marching of the general spirit of things is heading consciously or sub- consciously toward an idea of extension of boundaries. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names, but are as alike in their principals and aims as two peas in the same pod. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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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. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace; that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of nations far away. We have learned that we must live as men, and not as ostriches nor as dogs in the manger. We have learned to be citizens of the world, members of the human community. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It is time to extend planning to a wider field, in this instance comprehending in one great project many states directly concerned with the basin of one of our greatest rivers. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Religion, by teaching man his relationship to God, gives the individual a sense of his own dignity and teaches him to respect himself by respecting his neighbors. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob ... [The organized moneyed people] are unanimous in their hate for me and I welcome their hatred ... I should like to have it said of my second administration that these forces met their master. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I venture the challenging statement that if American democracy ceases to move forward as a living force, seeking day and night by peaceful means to better the lot of our citizens, fascism will grow in strength in our land. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It drives on with a courage which is stronger than the storm. It drives on with a mercy which does not quail in the presence of death. It drives on as proof, a symbol, a testimony that man is created in the image of God and that valour and virtue have not perished in the British race. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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In time of this grave national danger, when all excess income should go to win the war, no American citizen ought to have a net income, after he has paid his taxes, of more than $25,000 a year. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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There seems to be no question that [Mussolini] is really interested in what we are doing and I am much interested and deeply impressed by what he has accomplished and by his evidenced honest purpose of restoring Italy. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I am much interested and deeply impressed by what he has accomplished and by his evidenced honest purpose of restoring Italy and seeking to prevent general European trouble. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The motto of war is: "Let the strong survive; let the weak die." The motto of peace is: "Let the strong help the weak to survive." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A wise Government seeks to provide the opportunity through which the best of individual achievement can be obtained, while at the same time it seeks to remove such obstruction, such unfairness as springs from selfish human motives. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Raven Stone and Don Carson are the stupidest fucking people on the planet because their mothers didn't breastfeed them. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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You sometimes find something good in the lunatic fringe. In fact, we have got as part of our social and economic government today a whole lot of things which in my boyhood were considered lunatic fringe, and yet they are now part of everyday life. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I've fired my last shot. I think I should have another round in my belt. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Freedom of the press is essential to the preservation of a democracy; but there is a difference between freedom and license. Editorialists who tell downright lies in order to advance their own agendas do more to discredit the press than all the censors in the world. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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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. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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In the final analysis, the progress of our civilization will be retarded if any large body of citizens falls behind. Without the help of thousands of others, any one of us would die, naked and starved. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We now realize as we have never before our interdependence on each other; that we cannot merely take, but we must be willing to sacrifice for the good of a common discipline, because without such discipline, no progress is made, no leadership becomes effective. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Some people can never understand that you have to wait, even for the best of things, until the right time comes. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I am particularly interested in the indications that the people seem to understand and approve the necessity of pursuing the course that will prevent a further effort on the part of the German peoples to continue the struggle for world domination, even though they are thoroughly beaten in this war. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man" -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom of religious worship and freedom of education. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We count, in the future as in the past, on the driving power of individual initiative, on the incentive of fair private profit, strengthened of course with the acceptance of those obligations to the public interest which rest upon us all. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Tell that to the Marines! -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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More than just an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I ask especially that no state shall, by law or otherwise, authorize the return of the saloon, either in its old form or in some modern guise. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We must save the Constitution from the [Supreme] Court and the Court from itself. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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America has been the New World in all tongues, to all peoples, not because this continent was a new-found land, but because all those who came here believed they could create upon this continent a new life
a life that should be new in freedom. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Many causes produce war. There are ancient hatreds, turbulent frontiers, the "legacy of old forgotten, far-off things, and battles long ago." There are new-born fanaticisms. Convictions on the part of certain peoples that they have become the unique depositories of ultimate truth and right. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service, -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It will never be possible for any length of time for any group of the American people, either by reason of wealth or learning or inheritance or economic power, to retain any mandate, any permanent authority to arrogate to itself the political control of American public life. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I love it--I just love it. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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War is young men dying and old men talking -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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There's nothing to fear but a wide receiver who can run a 100-yard dash in under 10 seconds. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Until Henry Ford saw the chance to get free publicity (making Sub-chasers) he thought submarines were something to eat. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I owe my life to my hobbies - especially stamp collecting. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We must be the great arsenal of democracy. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching workers' hours. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Employers and employees alike have learned that in union there is strength. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed ... and may only be opened in the presence of an agent of the I.R.S. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people's property, other people's money, other people's labor - other people's lives. For too many of us life was no longer free; liberty no longer real; men could no longer follow the pursuit of happiness. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It is time to provide a smashing answer for those cynical men who say that a democracy cannot be honest, cannot be efficient ... We have in the darkest moments of our national trials retained our faith in our own ability to master our own destiny. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The real safeguard of democracy is education. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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[D]rilling and arming, when carried on on a national scale, excite whole populations to frenzies which end in war. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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There are as many opinions as there are experts. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Peace, like charity, begins at home. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Confidence ... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I call for effort, courage, sacrifice, devotion. Granting the love of freedom, all of these are possible. And the love of freedom is still fierce and steady in the nation today. June 10, 1940 -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The traditional Jeffersonian principle of religious freedom was so broadly democratic that it included the right to have no religion at all - it gave to the individual the right to worship any God he chose or no god. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded by a cruel desert of dictatorship. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Buying and selling securities on the Stock Exchange do not start new industries. Big business never starts anything new. It merely absorbs, consolidates and profits at the expense of others. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Necessitous men are not free men. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Sometimes the best way to keep peace in the family is to keep the members of the family apart for awhile. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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There is much to be said against the climate on the coast of British Columbia and Alaska; yet, I believe that the scenery of one good day will compensate the tourists who will go there in increasing numbers. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in our Federal government ... The individual sovereignty of our states must first be destroyed. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We do not see faith, hope, and charity as unattainable ideals, but we use them as stout supports of a nation fighting the fight for freedom in a modern civilization. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The presidency is not merely an administrative office ... It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference to almost any other. The general raising of the standards of modern civilization among all groups of people during the past half ce -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The first theory is that if we make the rich richer, somehow they will let a part of their prosperity trickle down to the rest of us. The second theory was the theory that if we make the average of mankind comfortable and secure, their prosperity will rise upward through the ranks. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Inside the polling booth every American man and woman stands as the equal of every other American man and woman. There they have no superiors. There they have no masters save their own minds and consciences. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world should have learned. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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'Peace on earth, good will toward men' - democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy cannot live without that true religion which gives a nation a sense of justice and moral purpose. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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There is no group in America that can withstand the force of an aroused public opinion. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work ... More important, however, than the material gains will be the moral and spiritual value of such work. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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That is the spiral galaxy in Andromeda. It is as large as our Milky Way. It is one of a hundred million galaxies. It consists of one hundred billion suns. Now I think we are small enough. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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That, in essence is Fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Forests are the lungs of our land ... -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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No greater tragedy exists in modern civilization than the aged, worn-out worker who after a life of ceaseless effort and useful productivity must look forward for his declining years to a poorhouse. A modern social consciousness demands a more humane and efficient arrangement. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The American people want their government to act, and not merely to talk, whenever and wherever there is a threat to world peace. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Okay, you've convinced me. Now go out there and bring pressure on me. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Nationwide thinking, nationwide planning and nationwide action are the three great essentials to prevent nationwide crises for future generations to struggle through. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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So many figures are quoted to prove so many things. Sometimes it depends on what paper you read or what broadcast you listen in on. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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To return to higher standards of living we must abandon the false prophets and seek new leaders of our own choosing. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Sports is the very fiber of all we stand for. It keeps our spirits alive. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The function of Government must be to favor no small group at the expense of its duty to protect the rights of personal freedom and of private property of all its citizens. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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These are bad days for all of us who remember always that when real world forces come into conflict, the final result is never as dark as we mortals guess it in very difficult days. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I believe that the fundamental proposition is that we must recognize that the hostilities in Europe, in Africa, and in Asia are all parts of a single world conflict. We must, consequently, recognize that our interests are menaced both in Europe and in the Far East. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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They realize that in thirty-four months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a peoples Government this power is wholesome and proper. But in the hands of political puppets of an economic autocracy such power would provide shackles for the liberties of the people. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Change is like fire- if uncontrolled, it will consume us. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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All work undertaken should be useful - not just for a day, or a year, but useful in the sense that it affords permanent improvement in living conditions or that it creates future new wealth for the Nation. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The Social Security Act offers to all our citizens a workable and working method of meeting urgent present needs and of forestalling future need. It utilizes the familiar machinery of our Federal-State government to promote the common welfare and the economic stability of the Nation. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I fearthat both dictators [Hitler and Mussolini] think their present methods are succeeding because of the gains they have made in Albania, Hungary and Yugoslavia. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Do the best you can do and wait the results in peace. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It is the purpose of government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the welfare and rights of the many are conserved. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia ... -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Almighty God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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For every advance that the Japanese have made since they started their frenzied career of conquest, they have had to pay a very heavy toll in warships, in transports, in planes, and in men. They are feeling the effects of those losses. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The fundamental idea ... is that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process of making for the enrichment of the lives of all of us. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice ... , the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Any Government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that a continuation of that habit means the poorhouse. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Friendship among nations, as among individuals, calls for constructive efforts to muster the forces of humanity in order that an atmosphere of close understanding and cooperation may be cultivated. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Our security is not a matter of weapons alone. The arm that wields them must be strong, the eye that guides them clear, the will that directs them indomitable. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I believe that we are going to get along very well with him [Josef Stalin] and the Russian people - very well indeed. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I see an America whose rivers and valleys and lakes hills and streams and plains the mountains over our land and nature's wealth deep under the earth are protected as the rightful heritage of all the people. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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But the challenge is always the same whether each generation facing its own circumstances can summon the practical devotion to attain and retain that greatest good for the greatest number which this government of the people was created to ensure. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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No business is above Government; and Government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above Government. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Dec. 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy -
No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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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. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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General de Gaulle was a thoroughly bad boy. The day he arrived, he thought he was Joan of Arc and the following day he insisted that he was Georges Clemenceau. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Our handicaps exist only in our minds. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Modern civilization has become so complex and the lives of civilized men so interwoven with the lives of other men in other countries as to make it impossible to be in this world and not of it. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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If we will not prepare to give all that we have and that all that we are to preserve Christian civilization in our land, we shall go to destruction. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The only thing we have to fear ... is audiovisual glitches at our annual event. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile, one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The liberal party is a party which believes that, as new conditions an problems arise beyond the power of men and women to meet as individuals, it becomes the duty of the government itself to find new remedies with which to meet them. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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You'll have to learn that public life takes a lot of sweat. But it doesn't need to worry you. You won't always be right, but you musn't suffer from being wrong. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It is a good thing to demand liberty for ourselves and for those who agree with us, but it is a better thing and a rarer thing to give liberty to others who do not agree with us. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We have faith that future generations will know that here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It is the habit of the unthinking to turn to the illusions of economic magic. These unhappy times call for the building of plans that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I have seen war ... I hate war. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Man's desire to be remembered is colossal. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I suggest a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations, -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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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. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Chamberlain's visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to me likean inevitable conflict within the next five years. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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If you have spent two years in bed trying to wiggle your big toe, everything else seems easy. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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To reach a port we must set sail -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory ... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Every man has a right to life. That means that he also has a right to make a comfortable living. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their trust. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Industrial combination is not wrong in itself. The danger lies in taking government into partnership. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Slowly, and in spite of anything we Americans do or do not do, it looks a little as if you and some other good people are going to have to answer the old question of whether you want to keep your country unshackled by taking even more definite steps to do so -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I am ... willing to make it clear that American foreign policy must uphold the sanctity of international treaties. That is the cornerstone on which all relations between nations must rest. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I regard reduction in Federal spending as one of the most important issues of this campaign. In my opinion, it is the most direct and effective contribution that Government can make to business. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Goods produced under conditions which do not meet a rudimentary standard to decency should be regarded as contraband and not allowed to pollute the channels of international commerce. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Since I am used to speaking in public, I know that it is useless. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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All free peoples are deeply impressed by the courage and steadfastness of the Greek nation. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The Truth is found when men (and Women) are free to pursue it. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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What America needs now is a drink, -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The driving force of a nation lies in its spiritual purpose, made effective by free, tolerant but unremitting national will. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Coming to grips with the reality that our planet is not the only one harboring intelligent life the universe. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I have a terrific headache. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to ... American democracy. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I am accustomed to hearing malicious falsehoods about myself ... But I think I have a right to resent, to object to libelous statements about my dog. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Failure is not an American habit. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Since 1775 the United States Marines have upheld a fine tradition of service to their country. They are doing so today. I am confident they will continue to do so. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Among American citizens, there should be no forgotten men and no forgotten races. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can be no end save victory. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We know that there are chiselers. At the bottom of every case of criticism and obstruction we have found some selfish interest, some private axe to grind. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The essence of our struggle is that men shall be free. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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[The United States is] founded on the principles of Christianity -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government ... costs too much. I shall not stop that preaching. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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To stand upon ramparts and die for our principles is heroic, but to sally forth to battle and win for our principles is something more than heroic. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We are fighting to save a great and precious form of government for ourselves and for the world. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Inquisitiveness is the most useful talent. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Great power involves great responsibility -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The history of the last half century is accordingly in large measure a history of financial titans, whose methods were not scrutinized with too much care and who were honored in proportion as they produced the results, irrespective of the means they used. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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There is nothing I love as much as a good fight. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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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. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Those (who) seek to establish systems of Government based on the regimentation of all Human Beings by a handful of individual rulers ... call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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There can be little doubt that in many ways the story of bridge building is the story of civilisation. By it we can readily measure an important part of a people's progress. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, on my wife, or on my sons. No, not content with that, they now include my little dog, Fala. Well, of course, I don't resent attacks ... but Fala does resent them. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred ... -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self reliant enough to be free. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The people of America are in agreement in defending their liberties at any cost, and the first line of that defense lies in the protection of economic security. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I am perhaps being a bit facetious but if some of my good Baptist brethren in Georgia had done a little preaching from the pulpitagainst the K.K.K. in the '20s, I would have a little more genuine American respect for their Christianity! -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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How many people in the United States do you think will be willing to go to war to free Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania? -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Happiness is not merely money, which is fun for effort and achievement -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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They have given their sons to the military services. They have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels. They have made the planes and welded the tanks. Riveted the ships and rolled the shells. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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To carry adequate life insurance is a moral obligation incumbent upon the great majority of citizens. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Once you've spent two years trying to wiggle one toe, everything is in proportion. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Freedom of speech ... Freedom of worship ... Freedom from want ... Freedom from fear. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The Nazi danger to our Western world has long ceased to be a mere possibility. The danger is here now
not only from a military enemy but from an enemy of all law, all liberty, all morality, all religion. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Our national debt after all is an internal debt owed not only by the Nation but to the Nation. If our children have to pay interest on it they will pay that interest to themselves. A reasonable internal debt will not impoverish our children or put the Nation into bankruptcy. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise. Private enterprise, indeed, became too private. It became privileged enterprise, not free enterprise. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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No business
which depends for existence on paying *less than living wages* to its
workers has any right to continue in this country ... By living wages, I
mean more than the bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of a decent
living. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Beware of that profound enemy of the free enterprise system who pays lip-service to free competition, but also labels every antitrust prosecution as a persecution. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Be sincere, Be brief, Be seated. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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True wealth is not a static thing. It is a living thing made out of the disposition of men to create and distribute the good things of life with rising standards of living. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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You are only an extra in everyone else's play. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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As a nation we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I think this would be a good time for a beer. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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This nation asks for action, and action now. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The whole world is one neighborhood. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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People die, but books never die. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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My own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It is highly unlikely that an airplane, or fleet of them, could ever sink a fleet of Navy vessels under battle conditions. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment ... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The constant free flow of communication amount us-enabling the free interchange of ideas-forms the very bloodstream of our nation. It keeps the mind and body of our democracy eternally vital, eternally young. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We must open our eyes and see that modern civilization has become so complex and the lives of civilized men so interwoven with thelives of other men in other countries as to make it impossible to be in this world and out of it. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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In the field of world policy; I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Today we are faced with the pre-eminent fact that if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships, the ability of all peoples of all kins to live together and to work together in the same world at peace. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country. Several of the best friends I have got are Communists. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We may make mistakes-but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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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 government. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Good government should maintain the balance where every individual may have a place if he will take it, where every individual may find safety if he wishes it, where every individual may attain such power as his ability permits, consistent with his assuming the accompanying responsibility. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Since becoming President, I have come to know that the finest of Americans we have abroad today are the missionaries of the cross. I am humiliated that I am not finding this out until this late day the worth of foreign missions and the nobility of the missionaries. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The first twelve years are the hardest. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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What I seek is the highest possible batting average. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Frankly, I do not know how to effect a permanency in American foreign policy. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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On both sides of the line, we are so accustomed to an undefended boundary three thousand miles long that we are inclined perhaps to minimize its vast importance, not only to our own continuing relations but also to the example which it sets to the other nations of the world. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The frontier of America is on the Rhine. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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People are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries is in danger. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Old women are the secret to the fluffiest cakes. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The core of our defense is the faith we have in the institutions we defend. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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If we do not halt this steady process of building commissions and regulatory bodies and the special legislation like huge inverted pyramids over every one of the simple constitutional provisions, we shall soon be spending many billions of dollars more. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The success of our whole national program depends, of course, on the cooperation of the public
on its intelligent support and its use of a reliable system. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead
and to find no one there. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I have a terrific pain in the back of my head. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Lord, reform Thy world, beginning with me. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The only thing we have to fear is a giant wheelchair-crushing squid. Well ... uh ... actually, I guess that's the only thing I have to fear. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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December 7th, 1941
a date which will live in infamy -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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War is a contagion. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It is to the real advantage of every producer, every manufacturer and every merchant to cooperate in the improvement of working conditions, because the best customer of American industry is the well-paid worker. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation . -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Do Something.
If it works, do more of it.
If it doesn't,
do something else. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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New Orleans makes it possible to go to Europe without ever leaving the United States. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Above all, try something -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We have nothing to fear but missing our massage appointment time -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I don't mind telling you in confidence that I am keeping in fairly close touch with that admirable Italian gentleman [Mussolini]. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Competition has been shown to be useful
up to a certain point and no further,
but cooperation, which is the thing
we must strive for today,
begins where competition leaves off. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Research is one of the Nation's very greatest resources and the role of the Federal Government in supporting and stimulating it needs to reexamined. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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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. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Liberty requires opportunity to make a living
a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives a man not only enough to live by, but something to live for. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Democracy is not a static thing. It is an everlasting march. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Calm seas never made a good sailor -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It has always seemed to me that the best symbol of common sense was a bridge. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It is fun to be in the same decade with you.
-Roosevelt to Churchill -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I've never been unemployed. I've never been very fully employed either. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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If you treat people right they will treat you right ... ninety percent of the time. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat, -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Books cannot be killed by fire. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt