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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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On both sides of the line, we are so accustomed to an undefended boundary three thousand miles long that we are inclined perhaps to minimize its vast importance, not only to our own continuing relations but also to the example which it sets to the other nations of the world.
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I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
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Perfectionism, no less than isolationism or imperialism or power politics, may obstruct the paths to international peace. Let us not forget that the retreat to isolationism a quarter of a century ago was started not by a direct attack against international cooperation but against the alleged imperfections of the peace.
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I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.
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Since I am used to speaking in public, I know that it is useless.
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The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation .
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Your profits are going to be cut down to a reasonably low level by taxation. Your income will be subject to higher taxes. Indeed in these days, when every available dollar should go to the war effort, I do not think that any American citizen should have a net income in excess of $25,000 per year after payment of taxes.
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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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Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
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It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
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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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We may make mistakes-but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle.
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Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed by themselves against abuse of freedom.
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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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You'll have to learn that public life takes a lot of sweat but it doesn't need to worry you. You won't always be right, but you mustn't suffer from being wrong. That's what kills people like us.
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Coming to grips with the reality that our planet is not the only one harboring intelligent life the universe.
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Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will.
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I have seen war ... I hate war.
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The most difficult place in the world to get a clear and open perspective of the country as a whole is Washington.
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