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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.

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Oct 28, 1940

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 1 of the act of July 9, 1918, c. 143, 40 Stat. 845, 848, it is ordered that all the public land within the following-described area be, and it is hereby, withdrawn from all forms of…

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Oct 28, 1940

We Americans want peace and we shall prepare for a peace, but not for a peace whose definition is slavery or death.

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Oct 28, 1940

It is better to have protection and not need it than to need protection and not have it.

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Oct 28, 1940

I hereby prescribe the following regulations governing the employment of unclassified laborers in the executive civil service of the United States.

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Oct 28, 1940

Ours is a great country—great in perpetual devotion to the cause of liberty and justice.

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Oct 27, 1940

It is becoming increasingly clear that peace by fear has no higher or more enduring quality than peace by the sword.

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Oct 27, 1940

Tonight, for the second time, I take up the public duty—the far from disagreeable duty—of answering major campaign falsifications with facts.

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Oct 27, 1940

I now brand as false the statement being made by Republican campaign orators, day after day and night after night, that the rearming of America is slow.

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Oct 22, 1940

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one.

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Oct 22, 1940

I shall never be loath to call the attention of the nation to deliberate or unwitting falsifications of fact.

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Oct 22, 1940

We have recognized that to the right to vote, the right to learn, the right to speak, the right to worship, we, your Government, add the right to work.

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Oct 22, 1940

I am sure that this year the people, not only of Delaware but of the United States, are all taking a renewed interest in that word 'liberty.'

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Oct 22, 1940

These same Republican leaders are all for the new progressive measures now; they believe in them.

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Oct 22, 1940

It is for peace that I have labored; and it is for peace that I shall labor all the days of my life.

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Oct 21, 1940

Service to country was the thread on which his life was strung.

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Oct 21, 1940

I hereby prescribe Volume Four of regulations governing the administration of said Act.

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Oct 20, 1940

I hereby approve the establishment of the aforesaid Board and the designation of the said Administrator.

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Oct 17, 1940

I shall not have the time or the inclination to engage in any purely political debate.

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Oct 17, 1940

Yes, there is a possibility that the speech will be shifted over to Baltimore.

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Oct 17, 1940

I have just anticipated, perhaps, certain statements that might afterwards come out.

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Oct 17, 1940

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, I hereby prescribe Volume Six of regulations governing the administration of said Act.

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Oct 17, 1940

I shall never be loath to call the attention of the nation to deliberate or unwitting falsifications of fact.

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Oct 16, 1940

I do hereby declare and proclaim that the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and imposts within the United States are suspended and discontinued so far as respects the vessels of Peru and the produce, manufactures, or merchandise…

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