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The core of our defense is the faith we have in the institutions we defend.
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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No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb.
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The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.
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Since becoming President, I have come to know that the finest of Americans we have abroad today are the missionaries of the cross. I am humiliated that I am not finding this out until this late day the worth of foreign missions and the nobility of the missionaries.
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We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
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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 are fighting to save a great and precious form of government for ourselves and for the world.
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