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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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In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.
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To stand upon ramparts and die for our principles is heroic, but to sally forth to battle and win for our principles is something more than heroic.
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Inside the polling booth every American man and woman stands as the equal of every other American man and woman. There they have no superiors. There they have no masters save their own minds and consciences.
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Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
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I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.
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I love it--I just love it.
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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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All of us in all the Americas will be living at the point of a gun.
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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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Lord, reform Thy world, beginning with me.
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If you have spent two years in bed trying to wiggle your big toe, everything else seems easy.
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The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in Government than in politics. The growing independence of voters, after all, has been proven by the votes in every Presidential election since my childhood and the tendency, frankly, is on the increase.
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I have a terrific headache.
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Beware of that profound enemy of the free enterprise system who pays lip-service to free competition, but also labels every antitrust prosecution as a persecution.
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Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self reliant enough to be free.
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Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it and to avoid placing onerous burdens upon the mass of our people.
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