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We stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place.
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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On both sides of the line, we are so accustomed to an undefended boundary three thousand miles long that we are inclined perhaps to minimize its vast importance, not only to our own continuing relations but also to the example which it sets to the other nations of the world.
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That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.
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It is time to provide a smashing answer for those cynical men who say that a democracy cannot be honest, cannot be efficient.... We have in the darkest moments of our national trials retained our faith in our own ability to master our own destiny.
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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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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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Frankly, I do not know how to effect a permanency in American foreign policy.
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The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.
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The American people want their government to act, and not merely to talk, whenever and wherever there is a threat to world peace.
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