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[Wikidata] Wikimedia disambiguation page... | [Wikipedia] Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving US president and the only one to have served more than two terms. His first two terms were centered on combating the Great Depression, while

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• The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are. Ablest
• Above all, try something All
• We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by… Assets
• In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down. All
• Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something. Admit
• War is a contagion. Contagion
• We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings. Beings
• Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the enjoyment of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort Achievement
• No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country Any
• The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than… Democracy
• We are fighting to save a great and precious form of government for ourselves and for the world. Fighting
• Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women Books
• The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. Compilation
• The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government ever… Andrew
• We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it. Best
• We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed… Approach
• There is nothing to fear but fear itself. Courage
• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. Advance
• Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted… Blooded
• Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch. Bitch
• Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air… Air
• 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.… Admit
• I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation (the Guffey Coal Control Bill) Bill
• To stand upon ramparts and die for our principles is heroic, but to sally forth to battle and win for our principles is something more… Battle
• The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to… Abundance

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