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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are. "

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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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" Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live. "

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" Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. "

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

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