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" In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down. "

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

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" Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are. "

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" Be sincere; be brief; be seated. "

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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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" I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all. "

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

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" Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education. "

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

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" It is fun to be in the same decade with you. "

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

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