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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
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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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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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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We stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place.
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In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny for freedom, not subjection and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike.
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New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones.
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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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Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it.
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I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.
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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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We are fighting to save a great and precious form of government for ourselves and for the world.
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