American - President | January 30, 1882 - April 12, 1945
This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.
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Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
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I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.
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No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
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In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.
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Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.
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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
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We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
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Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
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The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
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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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