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Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting. ↗

— 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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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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Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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