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Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
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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The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party.
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I believe that the fundamental proposition is that we must recognize that the hostilities in Europe, in Africa, and in Asia are all parts of a single world conflict. We must, consequently, recognize that our interests are menaced both in Europe and in the Far East.
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We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.
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No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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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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