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There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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In this world, is the destiny of mankind controlled by some transcendental entity or law? Is it like the hand of God hovering above? At least it is true that man has no control; even over his own will.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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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.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.
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.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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All free peoples are deeply impressed by the courage and steadfastness of the Greek nation.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We know it because democracy alone has constructed an unlimited civilization capable of infinite progress in the improvement of human life.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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In Washington's day the task of the people was to create and weld together a nation. In Lincoln's day the task of the people was to preserve that Nation from disruption from within. In this day the task of the people is to save that Nation and its institutions from disruption from without.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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If we lose that sacred fire - if we let it be smothered with doubt and fear - then we shall reject the destiny which Washington strove so valiantly and so triumphantly to establish. The preservation of the spirit and faith of the Nation does, and will, furnish the highest justification for every sacrifice that we may make in the cause of national defense.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The peace-loving nations must make a concerted effort in opposition to those violations of treaties and those ignorings of humane instincts which today are creating a state of international anarchy and instability from which there is no escape through mere isolation or neutrality.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We know it because democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7, 1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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In the Americas its impact has been irresistible. America has been the New World in all tongues, to all peoples, not because this continent was a new-found land, but because all those who came here believed they could create upon this continent a new life - a life that should be new in freedom.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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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.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
