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We must be the great arsenal of Democracy.
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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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
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Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world should have learned.
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The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party.
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We stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place.
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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In the final analysis, the progress of our civilization will be retarded if any large body of citizens falls behind. Without the help of thousands of others, any one of us would die, naked and starved.
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We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.
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We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear.
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The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved.
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Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.
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The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men.
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I see an America whose rivers and valleys and lakes hills and streams and plains the mountains over our land and nature's wealth deep under the earth are protected as the rightful heritage of all the people.
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The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
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Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.
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More than just an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.
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If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.
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We can afford all that we need but we can not afford all [that] we want.
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