Ability Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt

“It is time to provide a smashing answer for those cynical men who say that a democracy cannot be honest, cannot be efficient… We have in the darkest moments of our national trials retained our faith in our own ability to master our own destiny.” quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt — Download Open image

“It is time to provide a smashing answer for those cynical men who say that a democracy cannot be honest, cannot be efficient… We have in the darkest moments of our national trials retained our faith in our own ability to master our own destiny.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.

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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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I have seen war ... I hate war.

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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 seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of line—the survivors of a regiment of 1,000 that…

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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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They have given their sons to the military services. They have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels. They have made the planes…

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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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