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FDR

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1933, until his death on April 12, 1945. A member of the Democratic Party, he was born in New York and is best known for his leadership during two of the most significant crises in American history: the Great Depression and World War II. Roosevelt implemented the New Deal, a series of programs and reforms aimed at economic recovery and social welfare, which fundamentally reshaped the role of the federal government in American life.

Quotes by year · 193219455,694 total · peak 1937 (671)
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Sep 13, 1935

The people in the last two years have become more and more conscious of the practical economic effect of what we are doing.

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Sep 13, 1935

I wanted to get through what was known as the Top Lopping Law.

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Sep 13, 1935

Those men who served in the War were thinking of the future of their Nation.

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Sep 5, 1935

Executive Order No. 4624, dated April 1, 1927, withdrawing, with other lands, public lands in Tps. 50 and 51 N., Rs. 2, 3, and 4 E. of the New Mexico principal meridian, Colorado, is hereby revoked as to said townships.

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Sep 5, 1935

A car with many cylinders can keep running in spite of plenty of carbon— but it knocks.

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Sep 5, 1935

Our legislation was remedial, and as such, it would serve no purpose to make a doctrinaire effort to distinguish between that which was addressed to recovery and that which was addressed to reform.

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Sep 5, 1935

Skeptics were present when Noah said it was going to rain and they refused to go into the ark.

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Sep 5, 1935

I think we can safely disregard the skeptics of whom you speak.

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Sep 5, 1935

I take it that we are all not merely seeking but getting the recovery of confidence.

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Sep 5, 1935

The tax program of which you speak is based upon a broad and just social and economic purpose.

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Sep 5, 1935

Experience is the best teacher and results are the best evidence.

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Sep 5, 1935

Smoke out the sinister forces seeking to delude the public into believing that an orderly modernization of a system we want to preserve is revolution in disguise.

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Sep 5, 1935

I believe we owe, therefore, a positive duty to clarify our purposes, to describe our methods and to reiterate our ideals.

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Sep 5, 1935

I do not believe that any responsible political party in the country will dare to go before the public in opposition to any of these major objectives.

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Sep 3, 1935

This refuge shall be known as the Arrow-wood Migratory Waterfowl Refuge.

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Sep 3, 1935

This refuge shall be known as the Sand Lake Migratory Waterfowl Refuge.

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Sep 3, 1935

Executive Order No. 7126 of August 5, 1935, entitled 'Submission of Estimates to the Bureau of the Budget of Expenditures for Administrative Expenses in Certain Cases', as amended by Executive Order No. 7150 of August 19, 1935, is hereby…

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Sep 3, 1935

Since the 4th of March, 1933, dollar diplomacy is no longer recognized by the United States Government.

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Aug 30, 1935

The provisions of the Executive Order of August 5, 1935, that the agencies named therein are not to incur, from and after September 15, 1935, any obligations for administrative expenses not approved by the Director of the Bureau of the…

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Aug 28, 1935

I do hereby exempt Joseph L. Smith from the provisions thereof and continue him in the service until August 31, 1936.

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