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Sports is the very fiber of all we stand for. It keeps our spirits alive.
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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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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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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Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.
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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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The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
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We stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place.
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In time of this grave national danger, when all excess income should go to win the war, no American citizen ought to have a net income, after he has paid his taxes, of more than $25,000 a year.
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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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No business is above Government and Government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above Government.
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