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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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There is much to be said against the climate on the coast of British Columbia and Alaska yet, I believe that the scenery of one good day will compensate the tourists who will go there in increasing numbers.
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It is the habit of the unthinking to turn to the illusions of economic magic. These unhappy times call for the building of plans that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid
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I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight.
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Frankly, I do not know how to effect a permanency in American foreign policy.
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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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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
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I love it--I just love it.
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Sports is the very fiber of all we stand for. It keeps our spirits alive.
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.
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The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation .
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But the challenge is always the same - whether each generation facing its own circumstances can summon the practical devotion to attain and retain that greatest good for the greatest number which this government of the people was created to ensure.
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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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We stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.
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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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