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Lord, reform Thy world, beginning with me.
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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But the challenge is always the same - whether each generation facing its own circumstances can summon the practical devotion to attain and retain that greatest good for the greatest number which this government of the people was created to ensure.
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Appeasement is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile, one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.
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I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
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Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
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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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It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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Slowly, and in spite of anything we Americans do or do not do, it looks a little as if you and some other good people are going to have to answer the old question of whether you want to keep your country unshackled by taking even more definite steps to do so
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Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.
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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.
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Frankly, I do not know how to effect a permanency in American foreign policy.
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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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Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.
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Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.
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Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
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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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Democracy is not a static thing. It is an everlasting march.
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Change is like fire- if uncontrolled, it will consume us.
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I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.
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