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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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Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.
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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 we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.
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Finally, in our progress toward a resumption of work we require two safeguards against a return of the evils of the old order: there must be a strict supervision of all banking and credits and investments there must be an end to speculation with other people's money, and there must be provision for an adequate but sound currency.
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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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It is highly unlikely that an airplane, or fleet of them, could ever sink a fleet of Navy vessels under battle conditions.
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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.
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People die, but books never die.
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We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.
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In the field of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor.
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We count, in the future as in the past, on the driving power of individual initiative, on the incentive of fair private profit, strengthened of course with the acceptance of those obligations to the public interest which rest upon us all.
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How many people in the United States do you think will be willing to go to war to free Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania?
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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference to almost any other. The general raising of the standards of modern civilization among all groups of people during the past half ce
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It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
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The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
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It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.
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