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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. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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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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" 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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" I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made. "

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" It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present. "

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

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" Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples. "

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