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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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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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No greater blessing could come to our land today than a revival of the spirit of religion. I doubt if there is any problem in the world today -- social, political, or economic -- that would not find happy solution if approached in the spirit of the Sermon on the Mount.
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Organized money hates me--and I welcome their hatred!
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All of us in all the Americas will be living at the point of a gun.
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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
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We can afford all that we need but we can not afford all [that] we want.
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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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No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country... By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living.
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Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.
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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
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But the challenge is always the same - whether each generation facing its own circumstances can summon the practical devotion to attain and retain that greatest good for the greatest number which this government of the people was created to ensure.
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If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free
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The money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths.
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Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.
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If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you.
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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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