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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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The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
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My own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism.
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Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self reliant enough to be free.
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We must save the Constitution from the [Supreme] Court and the Court from itself.
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'Peace on earth, good will toward men' - democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy cannot live without that true religion which gives a nation a sense of justice and moral purpose.
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I am ... willing to make it clear that American foreign policy must uphold the sanctity of international treaties. That is the cornerstone on which all relations between nations must rest.
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I love it--I just love it.
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What I seek is the highest possible batting average.
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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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That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.
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Great power involves great responsibility
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All free peoples are deeply impressed by the courage and steadfastness of the Greek nation.
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In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny for freedom, not subjection and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike.
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Frankly, I do not know how to effect a permanency in American foreign policy.
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I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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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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Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it and to avoid placing onerous burdens upon the mass of our people.
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Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.
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In time of this grave national danger, when all excess income should go to win the war, no American citizen ought to have a net income, after he has paid his taxes, of more than $25,000 a year.
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