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

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

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

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

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" Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. "

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" A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. "

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

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

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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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" 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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" No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned. "

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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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" It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose. "

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

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

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" Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country. "

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

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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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" 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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" When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him. "

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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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" 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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