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The only thing we have to fear is a giant wheelchair-crushing squid. Well... uh... actually, I guess that's the only thing I have to fear.
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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In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny for freedom, not subjection and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike.
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Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.
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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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It is a good thing to demand liberty for ourselves and for those who agree with us, but it is a better thing and a rarer thing to give liberty to others who do not agree with us.
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We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will.... We must be the great arsenal of democracy.
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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
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The Nazi danger to our Western world has long ceased to be a mere possibility. The danger is here now--not only from a military enemy but from an enemy of all law, all liberty, all morality, all religion.
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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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Liberty requires opportunity to make a living--a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives a man not only enough to live by, but something to live for.
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There is no group in America that can withstand the force of an aroused public opinion.
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We, too, born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing to fight to maintain freedom. We, and all others who believe as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
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I love it--I just love it.
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Inquisitiveness is the most useful talent.
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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.
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We must be the great arsenal of Democracy.
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The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
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The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
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No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb.
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