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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. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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" Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting. "

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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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" The truth is found when men are free to pursue it. "

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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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" 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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" A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. "

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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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