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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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To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in our Federal government. . . The individual sovereignty of our states must first be destroyed.
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[D]rilling and arming, when carried on on a national scale, excite whole populations to frenzies which end in war.
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It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
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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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