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I pledge you I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order of compet...more

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I venture the challenging statement that if American democracy ceases to move forward as a living force, seeking day and night by peaceful means to be...more

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I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- ...more

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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 ...more

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Presidents are selected, not elected.

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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk 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 ...more

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War is young men dying and old men talking

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From the end of the World War twenty-one years ago, this country, like many others, went through a phase of having large groups of people carried away...more

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A Radical is a man with both feet firmly planted--in the air. A Conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to ...more

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There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President...more

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Several centuries ago the greatest writer in history described the two most menacing clouds that hang over human government and human society as "mali...more

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For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our sleeves rolled u...more

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I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

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