Franklin D. Roosevelt

Former President of the United States

A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching workers' hours.

Economy - Oneself - Work

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Former President of the United States

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

Death - Man

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Former President of the United States

There can be little doubt that in many ways the story of bridge building is the story of civilisation. By it we can readily measure an important part of a people's progress.

Progression - Story

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Former President of the United States

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.

Creativity

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Former President of the United States

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

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Former President of the United States

To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.

Expectation - Giving

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Former President of the United States

Change is like fire- if uncontrolled, it will consume us.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Former President of the United States

I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them.

Utility

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Former President of the United States

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Former President of the United States

It is time to extend planning to a wider field, in this instance comprehending in one great project many states directly concerned with the basin of one of our greatest rivers.

Politics - Projection - State

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Former President of the United States

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.

Democracy - Dependence - Economy - Man - Sound

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Former President of the United States

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

Fighting

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Former President of the United States

We have faith that future generations will know here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war.

Finding - Man - Production

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Former President of the United States

Necessitous men are not free men.

Man

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Former President of the United States

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.

Belief - Creativity - Judging - Man

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Former President of the United States

There has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that Americans have considerable industrial power - but that Americans are soft and decadent, that they cannot and will not unite and work and fight. ... Let them tell that to the Marines!

Persistence

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Former President of the United States

This great nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Endurance

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Former President of the United States

People die, but books never die.

Death

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Former President of the United States

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

Deal

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Former President of the United States

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

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