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I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.

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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I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.
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To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sports is the very fiber of all we stand for. It keeps our spirits alive.
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No greater blessing could come to our land today than a revival of the spirit of religion. I doubt if there is any problem in the world today -- social, political, or economic -- that would not find happy solution if approached in the spirit of the Sermon on the Mount.
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Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
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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
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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
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[D]rilling and arming, when carried on on a national scale, excite whole populations to frenzies which end in war.
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Lord, reform Thy world, beginning with me.
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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.
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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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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.
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