Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes About History
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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.
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We must be the great arsenal of Democracy.
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Yesterday, December 7, 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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If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free. If in other lands the eternal truths of the past are threatened by intolerance we must provide a safe place for their perpetuation.
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If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you.
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Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.
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First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
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Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.
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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 little.
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The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Born: January 30, 1882
- Died: April 12, 1945
- Occupation: 32nd U.S. President