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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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The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
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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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Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.
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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 highly unlikely that an airplane, or fleet of them, could ever sink a fleet of Navy vessels under battle conditions.
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We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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We have faith that future generations will know here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war.
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I am ... willing to make it clear that American foreign policy must uphold the sanctity of international treaties. That is the cornerstone on which all relations between nations must rest.
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Democracy is not a static thing. It is an everlasting march.
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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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All free peoples are deeply impressed by the courage and steadfastness of the Greek nation.
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We must open our eyes and see that modern civilization has become so complex and the lives of civilized men so interwoven with thelives of other men in other countries as to make it impossible to be in this world and out of it.
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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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We must be the great arsenal of Democracy.
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I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.
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The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.
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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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Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise.
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