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Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
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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There has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that Americans have considerable industrial power - but that Americans are soft and decadent, that they cannot and will not unite and work and fight. ... Let them tell that to the Marines!
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I have seen war ... I hate war.
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We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of other nations far away. We have learned that we must live as men, not as ostriches, nor as dogs in the manger.
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True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
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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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There is no group in America that can withstand the force of an aroused public opinion.
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Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.
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Sports is the very fiber of all we stand for. It keeps our spirits alive.
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