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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (164 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never learned to walk.

[aphorist] Franklin D. Roosevelt, in [category] Law and Politics

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (738 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by [user] Chris Daniels

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.

[aphorist] Franklin D. Roosevelt, (Chautauqua, New York, August 14, 1936), in [category] War and Peace

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (230 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

[aphorist] Franklin D. Roosevelt, (inaugural speech, 1944), in [category] War and Peace

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