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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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People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.
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I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation
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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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There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.
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Our Constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement without loss of essential form.
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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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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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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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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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To a great extent the achievements of invention, of mechanical and of artistic creation, must of necessity, and rightly, be individual rather than governmental. It is the self-reliant pioneer in every enterprise who beats the path along which American civilization has marched. Such individual effort is the glory of America.
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Do the best you can do and wait the results in peace.
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It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.
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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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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 Nazi danger to our Western world has long ceased to be a mere possibility. The danger is here now--not only from a military enemy but from an enemy of all law, all liberty, all morality, all religion.
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I have a terrific pain in the back of my head.
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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.
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Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.
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In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
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