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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. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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

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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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" War is a contagion. "

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

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" Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection. "

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" It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want. "

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" Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment. "

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" I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking. "

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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 reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. "

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" Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion. "

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

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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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