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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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Do the best you can do and wait the results in peace.
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I have seen war ... I hate war.
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We have faith that future generations will know 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.
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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.
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I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.
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Organized money hates me--and I welcome their hatred!
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Since I am used to speaking in public, I know that it is useless.
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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.
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