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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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Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
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A point has been reached where the peoples of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill-will, of marked trends toward aggression, of increasing armaments, of shortening tempers--a situation which has in it many of the elements that lead to the tragedy of general war.... Peace is threatened by those who seek selfish power.
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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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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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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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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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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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I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.
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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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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper.
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People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory.
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They realize that in thirty-four months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a peoples Government this power is wholesome and proper. But in the hands of political puppets of an economic autocracy such power would provide shackles for the liberties of the people.
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All free peoples are deeply impressed by the courage and steadfastness of the Greek nation.
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Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time.
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The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. ...And as a result the average man once more confronts the problem that faced the Minute Man.
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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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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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