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" If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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" The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea. "

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" I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made. "

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" When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him. "

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

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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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" There is nothing I love as much as a good fight. "

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" Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them. "

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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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" 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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" The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself. "

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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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" 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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" If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time. "

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" I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people. "

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" A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. "

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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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" Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men. "

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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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" This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny. "

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" If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come. "

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" Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off. "

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" Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars. "

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" Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle. "

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" It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present. "

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" In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people. "

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" Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country. "

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