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Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed by themselves against abuse of freedom.
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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Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
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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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You sometimes find something good in the lunatic fringe. In fact, we have got as part of our social and economic government today a whole lot of things which in my boyhood were considered lunatic fringe, and yet they are now part of everyday life.
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The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.
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My own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism.
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I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country. Several of the best friends I have got are Communists.
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