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I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them.
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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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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Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.
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Be sincere be brief be seated.
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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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I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.
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We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a nation, without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic. Where we have been the truest and most consistent in obeying its precepts, we have attained the greatest measure of contentment and prosperity.
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