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There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
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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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 only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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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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The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.
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That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.
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Liberty requires opportunity to make a living--a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives a man not only enough to live by, but something to live for.
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Friendship among nations, as among individuals, calls for constructive efforts to muster the forces of humanity in order that an atmosphere of close understanding and cooperation may be cultivated.
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We have faith that future generations will know here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war.
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