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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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" Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force. "

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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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" 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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" Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play. "

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

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

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" True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. "

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" To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift. "

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" I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues. "

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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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" 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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" 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 civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace. "

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" We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out. "

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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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" The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. "

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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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" The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little. "

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" There are as many opinions as there are experts. "

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" The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment. "

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

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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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" 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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