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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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Where freedom of religion has been attacked, the attack has come from sources opposed to democracy. Where democracy has been overthrown, the spirit of free worship has disappeared. And where religion and democracy have vanished, good faith and reason in international affairs have given way to strident ambition and brute force.
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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
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What America needs now is a drink.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We, too, born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing to fight to maintain freedom. We, and all others who believe as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
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The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.
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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.
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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.
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We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.
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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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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 a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living.
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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.
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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.
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