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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.
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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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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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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People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.
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Lord, reform Thy world, beginning with me.
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