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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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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New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones.
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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
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We are not isolationists except in so far as we seek to isolate ourselves completely from war. Yet we must remember that so long as war exists on earth there will be some danger that even the Nation which most ardently desires peace may be drawn into war.
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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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Since I am used to speaking in public, I know that it is useless.
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I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.
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I have a terrific pain in the back of my head.
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It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.
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There has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that Americans have considerable industrial power - but that Americans are soft and decadent, that they cannot and will not unite and work and fight. ... Let them tell that to the Marines!
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Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.
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I am much interested and deeply impressed by what he has accomplished and by his evidenced honest purpose of restoring Italy and seeking to prevent general European trouble.
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I see an America whose rivers and valleys and lakes hills and streams and plains the mountains over our land and nature's wealth deep under the earth are protected as the rightful heritage of all the people.
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