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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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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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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I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.
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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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Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.
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We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities.
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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing 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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It has always seemed to me that the best symbol of common sense was a bridge.
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You sometimes find something good in the lunatic fringe. In fact, we have got as part of our social and economic government today a whole lot of things which in my boyhood were considered lunatic fringe, and yet they are now part of everyday life.
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Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.
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I love it--I just love it.
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It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
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...Since 1775 the United States Marines have upheld a fine tradition of service to their country. They are doing so today. I am confident they will continue to do so.
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Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
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We can afford all that we need but we can not afford all [that] we want.
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Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.
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We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
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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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