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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.
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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We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
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Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
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Dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant.
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In the field of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor.
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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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The frontier of America is on the Rhine.
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All of us in all the Americas will be living at the point of a gun.
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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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Frankly, I do not know how to effect a permanency in American foreign policy.
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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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These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, on my wife, or on my sons. No, not content with that, they now include my little dog, Fala. Well, of course, I don't resent attacks... but Fala does resent them.
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Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
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Sometimes the best way to keep peace in the family is to keep the members of the family apart for awhile.
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Sports is the very fiber of all we stand for. It keeps our spirits alive.
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The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.
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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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Finally, in our progress toward a resumption of work we require two safeguards against a return of the evils of the old order: there must be a strict supervision of all banking and credits and investments there must be an end to speculation with other people's money, and there must be provision for an adequate but sound currency.
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Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise.
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I am much interested and deeply impressed by what he has accomplished and by his evidenced honest purpose of restoring Italy and seeking to prevent general European trouble.
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We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
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