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.
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Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.
But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
War is a contagion.
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
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.
Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

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