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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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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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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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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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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.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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We can afford all that we need but we can not afford all [that] we want.
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I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
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That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.
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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.
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In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
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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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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.
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We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
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I've fired my last shot. I think I should have another round in my belt.
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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.
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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.
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To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
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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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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.
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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.
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