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• Once I prophesied that this generation of Americans had a rendezvous with destiny. That prophecy now comes true. To us much is given; more is expected. This generation will nobly save or mainly lose the last best hope of earth. The way is plain, peaceful, generous just. A way, which if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Destiny, Forever, Peaceful

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• We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will.... We must be the great arsenal of democracy.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Men, Skills

  'Fireside Chat' radio broadcast, 29 December 1940, in 'Public Papers' (1941) vol. 9, p. 643

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• We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.... [The organized moneyed people] are unanimous in their hate for me and I welcome their hatred.... I should like to have it said of my second administration that these forces met their master.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Hate, Government, People

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• When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries is in danger.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Broken, Danger

  1939 Radio broadcast, 3 Sep.

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• For out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties. New kingdoms were built upon concentration of control over material things. Through new uses of corporations, banks and securities, new machinery of industry and agriculture, of labor and capital - all undreamed of by the Fathers - the whole structure of modern life was impressed into this royal service.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Father, Agriculture, Civilization

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Impression, Lifts, I Can

  "Ambassador's Journal: A Personal Account of the Kennedy Years". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith, p. 225, 1969.

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• I love it--I just love it.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

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• On both sides of the line, we are so accustomed to an undefended boundary three thousand miles long that we are inclined perhaps to minimize its vast importance, not only to our own continuing relations but also to the example which it sets to the other nations of the world.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Long, Presidential, World

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.277, Best Books on

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• To carry adequate life insurance is a moral obligation incumbent upon the great majority of citizens.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Majority, Citizens, Adequate

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• I ask especially that no state shall, by law or otherwise, authorize the return of the saloon, either in its old form or in some modern guise.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Law, Return, Modern

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Rocks, Government, History

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1933, Volume 2”, p.50, Best Books on

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• It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Management, Collective Bargaining, Personnel

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• Books cannot be killed by fire.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Book, Fire

  "Message to the Booksellers of America" (1942)

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• The driving force of a nation lies in its spiritual purpose, made effective by free, tolerant but unremitting national will.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Spiritual, Lying, Purpose

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.232, Best Books on

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• Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Democracy, World War 2

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• The first twelve years are the hardest.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Years, Twelve

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• Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Enterprise, Free Enterprise, Private Enterprise

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.308, Best Books on

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• New Orleans makes it possible to go to Europe without ever leaving the United States.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  New Orleans, Europe, Leaving

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• These are bad days for all of us who remember always that when real world forces come into conflict, the final result is never as dark as we mortals guess it in very difficult days.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Real, Bad Day, Dark

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• Preparation for defense is an inalienable prerogative of a sovereign state.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Preparation, Defense, Sovereign

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) (1943). “Development of United States Foreign Policy: Addresses and Messages of Franklin D. Roosevelt Compiled from Official Sources, Intended to Present the Chronological Development of the Foreign Policy of the United States from the Announcement of the Good Neighbor Policy in 1933, Including the War Declarations”

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• Since I am used to speaking in public, I know that it is useless.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Useless, Used, Knows

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• They have given their sons to the military services. They have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels. They have made the planes and welded the tanks. Riveted the ships and rolled the shells.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Military, War, Son

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1942, Volume 11”, p.355, Best Books on

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• Friendship among nations, as among individuals, calls for constructive efforts to muster the forces of humanity in order that an atmosphere of close understanding and cooperation may be cultivated.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Friendship, Order, Effort

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• The success of our whole national program depends, of course, on the cooperation of the public--on its intelligent support and its use of a reliable system.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Intelligent, Support, Use

  First Fireside Chat, delivered 12 March 1933, Washington D.C.

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• Those (who) seek to establish systems of Government based on the regimentation of all Human Beings by a handful of individual rulers...call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Order, Liberty

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