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The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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