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Appeasement is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile, one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.
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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We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
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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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True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
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The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
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We must be the great arsenal of Democracy.
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Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time.
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We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will.... We must be the great arsenal of democracy.
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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
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Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.
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No business is above Government and Government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above Government.
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The success of our whole national program depends, of course, on the cooperation of the public--on its intelligent support and its use of a reliable system.
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We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
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We are fighting to save a great and precious form of government for ourselves and for the world.
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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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