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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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If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free
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No greater blessing could come to our land today than a revival of the spirit of religion. I doubt if there is any problem in the world today -- social, political, or economic -- that would not find happy solution if approached in the spirit of the Sermon on the Mount.
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People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory.
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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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Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.
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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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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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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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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party.
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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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No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.
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Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.
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Inside the polling booth every American man and woman stands as the equal of every other American man and woman. There they have no superiors. There they have no masters save their own minds and consciences.
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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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I suggest a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas.
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The only thing we have to fear...is audiovisual glitches at our annual event.
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The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in Government than in politics. The growing independence of voters, after all, has been proven by the votes in every Presidential election since my childhood and the tendency, frankly, is on the increase.
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...Since 1775 the United States Marines have upheld a fine tradition of service to their country. They are doing so today. I am confident they will continue to do so.
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