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What I seek is the highest possible batting average.
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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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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Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.
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We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.
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I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country. Several of the best friends I have got are Communists.
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I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation
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We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.
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...Since 1775 the United States Marines have upheld a fine tradition of service to their country. They are doing so today. I am confident they will continue to do so.
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We must save the Constitution from the [Supreme] Court and the Court from itself.
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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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Friendship among nations, as among individuals, calls for constructive efforts to muster the forces of humanity in order that an atmosphere of close understanding and cooperation may be cultivated.
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Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
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We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.
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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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Since becoming President, I have come to know that the finest of Americans we have abroad today are the missionaries of the cross. I am humiliated that I am not finding this out until this late day the worth of foreign missions and the nobility of the missionaries.
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We are not isolationists except in so far as we seek to isolate ourselves completely from war. Yet we must remember that so long as war exists on earth there will be some danger that even the Nation which most ardently desires peace may be drawn into war.
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