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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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One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.
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Appeasement is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile, one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.
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Our security is not a matter of weapons alone. The arm that wields them must be strong, the eye that guides them clear, the will that directs them indomitable.
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To reach a port we must set sail
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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 have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will.... We must be the great arsenal of democracy.
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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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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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I have seen war ... I hate war.
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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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Are we going to take the hands of the federal government completely off any effort to adjust the growing of national crops, and go right straight back to the old principle that every farmer is a lord of his own farm and can do anything he wants, raise anything, any old time, in any quantity, and sell any time he wants?
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Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.
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I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.
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Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
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The only thing we have to fear is a giant wheelchair-crushing squid. Well... uh... actually, I guess that's the only thing I have to fear.
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Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
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True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
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The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
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I ask especially that no state shall, by law or otherwise, authorize the return of the saloon, either in its old form or in some modern guise.
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New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones.
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