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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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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them.
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If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
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The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in Government than in politics. The growing independence of voters, after all, has been proven by the votes in every Presidential election since my childhood and the tendency, frankly, is on the increase.
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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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We can afford all that we need but we can not afford all [that] we want.
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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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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.
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But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
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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.
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Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
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We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.
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What I seek is the highest possible batting average.
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Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed by themselves against abuse of freedom.
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