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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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One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.
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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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All free peoples are deeply impressed by the courage and steadfastness of the Greek nation.
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The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party.
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Democracy can thrive only when it enlists the devotion of those whom Lincoln called the common people. Democracy can hold that devotion only when it adequately respects their dignity by so ordering society as to assure to the masses of men and women reasonable security and hope for themselves and for their children.
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We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a nation, without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic. Where we have been the truest and most consistent in obeying its precepts, we have attained the greatest measure of contentment and prosperity.
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In time of this grave national danger, when all excess income should go to win the war, no American citizen ought to have a net income, after he has paid his taxes, of more than $25,000 a year.
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I've fired my last shot. I think I should have another round in my belt.
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We have nothing to fear but missing our massage appointment time
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I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.
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People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.
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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
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Our Constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement without loss of essential form.
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I believe that we are going to get along very well with him [Josef Stalin] and the Russian people - very well indeed.
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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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Great power involves great responsibility
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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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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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Do the best you can do and wait the results in peace.
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