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General de Gaulle was a thoroughly bad boy. The day he arrived, he thought he was Joan of Arc and the following day he insisted that he was Georges Clemenceau.

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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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Finally, in our progress toward a resumption of work we require two safeguards against a return of the evils of the old order: there must be a strict supervision of all banking and credits and investments there must be an end to speculation with other people's money, and there must be provision for an adequate but sound currency.
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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.
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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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I love it--I just love it.
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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
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Do the best you can do and wait the results in peace.
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The frontier of America is on the Rhine.
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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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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
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You are, I am sure, aware that genuine popular support in the United States is required to carry out any Government policy, foreign or domestic. The American people make up their own minds and no governmental action can change it.
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We must be the great arsenal of Democracy.
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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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Democracy is not a static thing. It is an everlasting march.
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We have nothing to fear but missing our massage appointment time
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They realize that in thirty-four months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a peoples Government this power is wholesome and proper. But in the hands of political puppets of an economic autocracy such power would provide shackles for the liberties of the people.
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Perfectionism, no less than isolationism or imperialism or power politics, may obstruct the paths to international peace. Let us not forget that the retreat to isolationism a quarter of a century ago was started not by a direct attack against international cooperation but against the alleged imperfections of the peace.
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I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.
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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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I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
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