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Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
32nd president of US [more author details]
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We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live on in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, Address to Congress, Dec. 8, 1941
We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fireside chat on national defense, May 26, 1940
First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933
It is fun to be in the same decade with you.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, in a letter to Winston Churchill
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, message for Jefferson Day, April 13, 1945
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, quoted Kansas City Star, June 5, 1977
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, Oct. 26, 1939
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, October 26, 1939
The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech in Syracuse, NY Sep. 29, 1936
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech, September 22, 1936
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speeches... in the Trial of Warren Hastings, May 5, 1789

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