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  • #1
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.

    They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.

    Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred.”
    Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • #2
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.”
    Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • #3
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”
    Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • #4
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
    Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • #5
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.”
    Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • #6
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can be no end save victory.”
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt

  • #7
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. ”
    Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • #8
    William Penn
    “Time is what we want most,but what we use worst.”
    William Penn

  • #9
    “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
    Harry Crosby, Transit of Venus

  • #10
    T.S. Eliot
    “Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
    T.S. Eliot

  • #11
    T.S. Eliot
    “Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.”
    T.S. Eliot

  • #12
    T.S. Eliot
    “Humankind cannot bear very much reality.”
    T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

  • #13
    T.S. Eliot
    “What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”
    T.S. Eliot

  • #14
    T.S. Eliot
    “Distracted from distraction by distraction”
    T.S. Eliot

  • #15
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde



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