"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have too much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

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"I pledge to you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people."

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"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself".

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"No county, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization, caused by vast unemployment, is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order."

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"I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded ... I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed ... I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war."

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"We have faith that future generations will know that here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war."

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