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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 frontier of America is on the Rhine. America
• The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try… Admit
• Is the United States going to decide, are the people of this country going to decide that their Federal Government shall in the future have… Any
• The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. Thats the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is… Administrative
• Slowly, and in spite of anything we Americans do or do not do, it looks a little as if you and some other good people… Americans
• The traditional Jeffersonian principle of religious freedom was so broadly democratic that it included the right to have no religion at all - it gave… All
• The Social Security Act offers to all our citizens a workable and working method of meeting urgent present needs and of forestalling future need. It… Act
• Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it and to avoid… Able
• It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself.… Average
• These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away… Allegiance
• All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger. All
• I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded by a cruel… American
• The money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. Ancient
• I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them. Capable
• The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth. Cannot Forever
• 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… All
• Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will. All
• Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a… Freedom
• A wise Government seeks to provide the opportunity through which the best of individual achievement can be obtained, while at the same time it seeks… Achievement
• The True conservative seeks to protect the system of private property and free enterprise by correcting such injustices and inequalities as arise from it. The… Arise
• Many causes produce war. There are ancient hatreds, turbulent frontiers, the "legacy of old forgotten, far-off things, and battles long ago." There are new-born fanaticisms.… Ago
• We are not isolationists except in so far as we seek to isolate ourselves completely from war. Yet we must remember that so long as… Ardently
• We count, in the future as in the past, on the driving power of individual initiative, on the incentive of fair private profit, strengthened of… Acceptance
• The success of our whole national program depends, of course, on the cooperation of the public--on its intelligent support and its use of a reliable… Cooperation
• This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. Endure

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