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Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Age: 63 †
Born: 1882
Born: January 30
Died: 1945
Died: April 12
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A point has been reached where the peoples of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill-will, of marked trends toward aggression, of increasing armaments, of shortening tempers--a situation which has in it many of the elements that lead to the tragedy of general war.... Peace is threatened by those who seek selfish power.
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Dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant.
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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
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There is nothing so American as our national parks. The scenery and the wildlife are native. The fundamental idea behind the parks is native. It is, in brief, that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process of making for the enrichment of the lives of all of us. The parks stand as the outward symbal of the great human principle.
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Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them.
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We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.
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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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I have a terrific pain in the back of my head.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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Be sincere be brief be seated.
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It is a good thing to demand liberty for ourselves and for those who agree with us, but it is a better thing and a rarer thing to give liberty to others who do not agree with us.
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Failure is not an American habit.
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I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
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In time of this grave national danger, when all excess income should go to win the war, no American citizen ought to have a net income, after he has paid his taxes, of more than $25,000 a year.
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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 call for effort, courage, sacrifice, devotion. Granting the love of freedom, all of these are possible. And the love of freedom is still fierce and steady in the nation today. June 10, 1940
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Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men.
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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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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