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• Liberty requires opportunity to make a living--a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives a man not only enough to live by, but something to live for.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Freedom, Opportunity, Men

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

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• In this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens, a substantial part of its whole population, who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life. I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. 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 too little.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Progress, Population

  Second Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1937

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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.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Firsts, Newspapers, Dictatorship

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• I never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their trust.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  People, House, Political

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2008). “Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944”, Red & Black Pub

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• The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson...

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Freedom, Real, World Government

  "F.D.R.: His Personal Letters, 1928-1945" edited by Elliott Roosevelt, New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, (p. 373), 1950.

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• Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter.

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  Forgiveness, War, Naked

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• This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Destiny, Presidential, This Generation

  Speech accepting renomination as president, Philadelphia, Pa., 27 June 1936

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• We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2010). “Quotations of Franklin Delano Roosevelt”

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• We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Power, America, Politics

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2008). “Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944”, Red & Black Pub

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• It is the purpose of the government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the welfare and rights of the many are conserved.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Rights, Government, Purpose

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2009). “Looking Forward”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• It seems to me that the dedication of a library is an act of faith. To bring together the resources of the past and to house them in buildings where they will be preserved for the use of men and women in the future, a nation must believe in three things. It must believe in the past. it must believe in the future. It must, above all, believe in the capacity of its own people so to learn from the past that they can gain in judgment in creating their own future.

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  Believe, Past, Men

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• Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Time, Littles, Management

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2008). “Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944”, Red & Black Pub

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• They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Fighting, Sacrifice, Lust

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

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• A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Public Opinion, Opinion

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.43, Best Books on

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• Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Love, Self, Enemy

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• Our handicaps exist only in our minds.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Strength, Mind, Handicaps

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• Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

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  Lying, Dark, Destiny

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2009). “Looking Forward”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Confidence, Honesty, Patriotic

  First Inaugural Address, Delivered 4 March 1933

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• Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  "Looking Forward".

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• Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

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  Carpe Diem, Government, Ice

  1936 Renomination acceptance speech, Philadelphia, 27 Jun.

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• Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.

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  Taxation, Taxes Funny, Pay

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• The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Order, History

  The Four Freedoms, delivered 6 January, 1941 (photo of FDR in 1936)

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• Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Meaning Of Life, Social, Situation

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• To reach a port we must set sail

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  Sailing, Nautical, Port

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• The public schools shall be free from sectarian influences and, above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Attitude, School, Presidential

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