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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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I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
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More than just an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.
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Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will.
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The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in Government than in politics. The growing independence of voters, after all, has been proven by the votes in every Presidential election since my childhood and the tendency, frankly, is on the increase.
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The True conservative seeks to protect the system of private property and free enterprise by correcting such injustices and inequalities as arise from it. The most serious threat to our institutions comes from those who refuse to face the need for change. Liberalism becomes the protection for the far-sighted conservative.
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...We now realize as we have never before our interdependence on each other that we cannot merely take, but we must be willing to sacrifice for the good of a common discipline, because without such discipline, no progress is made, no leadership becomes effective.
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Every man has a right to life, and this means that he has also a right to make a comfortable living.
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I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded by a cruel desert of dictatorship.
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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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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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Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.
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I ask especially that no state shall, by law or otherwise, authorize the return of the saloon, either in its old form or in some modern guise.
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I call for effort, courage, sacrifice, devotion. Granting the love of freedom, all of these are possible. And the love of freedom is still fierce and steady in the nation today. June 10, 1940
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It is a good thing to demand liberty for ourselves and for those who agree with us, but it is a better thing and a rarer thing to give liberty to others who do not agree with us.
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