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Franklin D. Roosevelt says democracy needs peace and goodwill for everyone. He also points out that workers' sweat pays taxes and that ordinary people deserve economic freedom. He warns that a few people holding all the money and power can hurt the rest.

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Necessitous men are not free men.

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The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.

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Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air.

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

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No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.

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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.

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Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

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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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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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Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - Franklin…

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A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man"

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Every man has a right to life, and this means that he has also a right to make a comfortable living.

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Every man has a right to life. That means that he also has a right to make a comfortable living.

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Among American citizens, there should be no forgotten men and no forgotten races.

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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…

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True wealth is not a static thing. It is a living thing made out of the disposition of men to create and…

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Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In…

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There is one front and one battle where everyone in the United States-every man, woman, and child-is in action, and will be…

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For every advance that the Japanese have made since they started their frenzied career of conquest, they have had to pay a…

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We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a…

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'Peace on earth, good will toward men' - democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy…

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The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific…

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Democracy can thrive only when it enlists the devotion of those whom Lincoln called the common people. Democracy can hold that devotion…

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The creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are strong and self-reliant, and…

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I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have…

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As Commander-in-Chief, I take pleasure in commending the reading of the Bible to all who serve in the Armed Forces of the…

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We all know that books burn, yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but…

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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs,…

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It seems to me that the dedication of a library is an act of faith. To bring together the resources of the…

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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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Our policy is to give all possible material aid to the nations that still resist aggression across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.…

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In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me…

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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

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A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest-at the command-of his head.

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Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no…

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Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.

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Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will.

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We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will… We must be the great arsenal of democracy.

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Inquisitiveness is the most useful talent.

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'Peace on earth, good will toward men' - democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy cannot live…

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All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on…

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On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia...

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The core of our defense is the faith we have in the institutions we defend.

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War is a contagion.

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Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.

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Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.

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The frontier of America is on the Rhine.

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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

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The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in Government than in politics. The growing…

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