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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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" We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon. "

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" More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments. "

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" The truth is found when men are free to pursue it. "

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

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" Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle. "

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" The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea. "

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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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