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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.


— Franklin D. Roosevelt


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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.


— Franklin D. Roosevelt


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It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.


— Franklin D. Roosevelt


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Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.


— Franklin D. Roosevelt


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In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.


— Franklin D. Roosevelt


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But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.


— Franklin D. Roosevelt


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I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.


— Franklin D. Roosevelt


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If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.


— Franklin D. Roosevelt


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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.


— Franklin D. Roosevelt


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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 air forces of the Empire of Japan.


— Franklin D. Roosevelt


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The new vice-presidential nominee was Henry A. When the economy began to deteriorate again in late 1937 Roosevelt asked Congress for $5 billion in WPA relief and public works funding.

Energized by his personal victory over polio FDR's unfailing optimism and activism contributed to a renewal of the national spirit. : /ˈroʊzəvəlt/ ROH-zə-vəlt; January 30 1882 – April 12 1945) also known by his initials FDR was the 32nd President of the United States (1933–1945) and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war. In 1942 Roosevelt ordered the internment of 100000 Japanese American civilians.

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