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.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
32nd US President (1882-1945) and the only one elected four times. He led America out of the Great Depression through the New Deal, guided the Allies to victory in WWII, and laid the groundwork for the United Nations.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Other Quotes
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Yesterday, December 7th, 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 must be the great arsenal of democracy.
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If you want to know the internal contradictions of a thing you must take part in the practice of changing it.
-- Mao Zedong
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.
-- Ronald Reagan
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.
-- Abraham Lincoln
Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.
-- John F. Kennedy