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" Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples. "
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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" 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. "
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" One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along. "
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" I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. "
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" There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. "
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" It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach. "
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" Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. "
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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. "
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" Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged. "
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" The truth is found when men are free to pursue it. "
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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. "
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" Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter. "
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" The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. "
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" War is a contagion. "
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" It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose. "
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" Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are. "
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" The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. "
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" 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 forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God. "
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" Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. "
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" The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself. "
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" There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny. "
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" We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power. "
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" Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force. "
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" No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal. "
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" When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. "
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" Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something. "
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" The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart. "
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" I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking. "
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" We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon. "
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" In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. "
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