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Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."

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"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."

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"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms."

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"A house in the country is not the same as a country house."

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"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."

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"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."

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"That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings."

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"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."

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"A whole nation cannot rise above itself."

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"If Iran becomes a nuclear weapon state it is the end of non-proliferation as we know it. If Iran gets a nuclear weapon you are likely to see Saudi, Egypt and other countries follow suit and we will bequeath to the next generation a nuclear arms race in the world's most unstable region."

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"A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world."

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"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."
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"I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making."
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"But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings."
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"No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal."
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"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."
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"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
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"Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment."
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"A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards."
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"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough."
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"There are as many opinions as there are experts."
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