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First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the
only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
F.D.R.
(First Inaugural Address 4 Mar. 1933) |
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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed: it
must be achieved.
F.D.R.
(Speech 22 Sept 1936) |
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
F.D.R. (Radio Address
26, Oct. 1939) |
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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs
who, however, has never learned to walk forward.
F.D.R.
(Radio Address 26 Oct. 1939 |
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of
their own minds.
F.D.R. (Pan America
Day Address 15, Apr. 1939) |
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be
our doubts of today.
F.D.R. (Message
for Jefferson Day 13 Apr. 1945) |
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Our great-grandmother9 Maria Vigne
(1613-1689) was also the great-grandmother7
of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He Assumed the
Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression. "Franklin D.
Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. He
brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action, and asserted in his
Inaugural Address, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Following the example of his
fifth cousin, President Theodore Roosevelt, whom he
greatly admired, Franklin D. Roosevelt entered
public service through politics, but as a Democrat.
He won election to the New York Senate in 1910.
President Wilson appointed him Assistant Secretary
of the Navy, and he was the Democratic nominee for
Vice President in 1920.
In the summer of 1921, when he
was 39, disaster hit-he was stricken with
poliomyelitis. Demonstrating indomitable courage, he
fought to regain the use of his legs, particularly
through swimming. At the 1924 Democratic Convention
he dramatically appeared on crutches to nominate
Alfred E. Smith as "the Happy Warrior." In 1928
Roosevelt became Governor of New York. He was
elected President in November 1932, to the first of
four terms."
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