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Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

«Taxes, after all, are the dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society»
«The school is that last expenditure upon which Americans should be willing to economize»
«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.»
«I do not believe in Communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country; several of the best friends I have got are Communists»
«Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales»
«The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson»
«When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.»
«He [Somoza] may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch»
«We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace-business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. Never before in history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hatred for me - and I welcome their hatred. I should like to have it said of my first administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second administration that in it these forces met their master.- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Speech at Madison Square Garden»
«The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt (President) | Keywords: ablest

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