American - President | January 30, 1882 - April 12, 1945
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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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 point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.
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It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.
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One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.
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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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A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
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In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.
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There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
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