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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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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Age: 63 †
Born: 1882
Born: January 30
Died: 1945
Died: April 12
32Nd U.S. President
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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.
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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.
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To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
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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 other nations far away. We have learned that we must live as men, not as ostriches, nor as dogs in the manger.
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No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb.
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New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones.
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Since I am used to speaking in public, I know that it is useless.
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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.
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We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities.
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We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a nation, without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic. Where we have been the truest and most consistent in obeying its precepts, we have attained the greatest measure of contentment and prosperity.
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We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.
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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.
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The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
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All free peoples are deeply impressed by the courage and steadfastness of the Greek nation.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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