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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. "
Franklin D. Roosevelt
People
American
Depression
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" Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else. "
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" There are as many opinions as there are experts. "
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" It is fun to be in the same decade with you. "
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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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" When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. "
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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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Common
" I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made. "
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" Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are. "
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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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" Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. "
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" More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments. "
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