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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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I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight.
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Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.
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We are fighting to save a great and precious form of government for ourselves and for the world.
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The driving force of a nation lies in its spiritual purpose, made effective by free, tolerant but unremitting national will.
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Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it.
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Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self reliant enough to be free.
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But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
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If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
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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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We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
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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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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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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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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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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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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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