"The worst of all fears is the fear of living"
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"Do nothing to mar its grandeur ... keep it for your children, your children's children, and all who come after you, as the one great sight which every American should see."
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"To have acted otherwise ... would have been the betrayal of the interests of the United States."
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"I am rather more apt to read old books than new ones."
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"It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract to require that when men receive from government the privilege of doing business under corporate form... they shall do so under absolutely truthful representations... Great corporations exist only because they were created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions."
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"The supreme duty of the Nation is the conservation of human resources through an enlightened measure of social and industrial justice. We pledge ourselves to work unceasingly in State and Nation for ... the protection of home life against the hazards of sickness, irregular employment and old age through the adoption of a system of social insurance adapted to American use."
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"It is a wicked thing to be neutral between right and wrong."
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"The immigrant must not be allowed to drift or to be put at the mercy of the exploiter. Our object is not to imitate one of the older racial types, but to maintain a new American type and then to secure loyalty to this type. We cannot secure such loyalty unless we make this a country where men shall feel that they have justice and also where they shall feel that they are required to perform the duties imposed upon them."
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"It is by no means necessary that a great nation should always stand at the heroic level. But no nation has the root of greatness in it unless in time of need it can rise to the heroic mood."
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"We are the heirs of the ages"
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"The name Roosevelt has this legendary force in our country at this time."
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"What I am to be, I am becoming."
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"The man who does not think it was America's duty to fight for her own sake in view of the infamous conduct of Germany toward us stands on a level with a man who wouldn't think it necessary to fight in a private quarrel because his wife's face was slapped."
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"Not trying is the surest way of achieving nothing at all."
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"Just as you believe you may have already halfway there"
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"In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity to do well and worthily a piece of work of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind."
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"Ruin looks us in the face if we judge a man by his position instead of judging him by his conduct in that position."
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"The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics."
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"I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared."
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"What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism."
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