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Our Constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement without loss of essential form.
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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I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.
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We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.
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I suggest a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas.
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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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If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.
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All of us in all the Americas will be living at the point of a gun.
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Are we going to take the hands of the federal government completely off any effort to adjust the growing of national crops, and go right straight back to the old principle that every farmer is a lord of his own farm and can do anything he wants, raise anything, any old time, in any quantity, and sell any time he wants?
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If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you.
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It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.
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