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I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.
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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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The constant free flow of communication amount us-enabling the free interchange of ideas-forms the very bloodstream of our nation. It keeps the mind and body of our democracy eternally vital, eternally young.
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A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching workers' hours.
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I suggest a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas.
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People die, but books never die.
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We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.... [The organized moneyed people] are unanimous in their hate for me and I welcome their hatred.... I should like to have it said of my second administration that these forces met their master.
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Buying and selling securities on the Stock Exchange do not start new industries. Big business never starts anything new. It merely absorbs, consolidates and profits at the expense of others.
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Beware of that profound enemy of the free enterprise system who pays lip-service to free competition, but also labels every antitrust prosecution as a persecution.
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You are, I am sure, aware that genuine popular support in the United States is required to carry out any Government policy, foreign or domestic. The American people make up their own minds and no governmental action can change it.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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All free peoples are deeply impressed by the courage and steadfastness of the Greek nation.
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Frankly, I do not know how to effect a permanency in American foreign policy.
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You'll have to learn that public life takes a lot of sweat but it doesn't need to worry you. You won't always be right, but you mustn't suffer from being wrong. That's what kills people like us.
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I have a terrific pain in the back of my head.
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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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The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear.
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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
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Great power involves great responsibility
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