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" War is a contagion. "
Franklin D. Roosevelt
War
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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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" Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. "
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" The truth is found when men are free to pursue it. "
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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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" In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. "
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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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" I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all. "
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" Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. "
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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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" When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. "
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" I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making. "
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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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" Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country. "
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" There is nothing I love as much as a good fight. "
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Good
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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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" 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 must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings. "
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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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" 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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" True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. "
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" Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off. "
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" Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection. "
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" I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made. "
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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 school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. "
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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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" It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present. "
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" We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out. "
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