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the only thing we have to fear is fear itself
32nd president · 1933–1945
Franklin D. Roosevelt
8 quotes, oldest first. Every one links to the speech, message or opinion it came from.
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Nearly all of us recognize that as intricacies of human relationships increase, so power to govern them also must increase--power to stop evil; power to do good.
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Government is competent when all who compose it work as trustees for the whole people.
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In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit.
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Sometimes we fail to hear or heed these voices of freedom because to us the privilege of our freedom is such an old, old story.
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The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history.
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Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights--then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward.