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One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

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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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We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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The only thing we have to fear...is audiovisual glitches at our annual event.
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Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.
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If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free
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Change is like fire- if uncontrolled, it will consume us.
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The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.
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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.
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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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We must open our eyes and see that modern civilization has become so complex and the lives of civilized men so interwoven with thelives of other men in other countries as to make it impossible to be in this world and out of it.
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I see an America whose rivers and valleys and lakes hills and streams and plains the mountains over our land and nature's wealth deep under the earth are protected as the rightful heritage of all the people.
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We must save the Constitution from the [Supreme] Court and the Court from itself.
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Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
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It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. ...And as a result the average man once more confronts the problem that faced the Minute Man.
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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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The American People in their Righteous Might will win through to Absolute Victory.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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Since I am used to speaking in public, I know that it is useless.
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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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If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
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